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What did you do at work today?… Updated
Things have come a long way since my first blog post back in February about what we do in our work at MERL. No longer do we spend our days solidly cataloguing! In fact, it sometimes feels that a week...
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The George Lailey lathe
George Lailey One of the top spots on our guided tour of Bucklebury earlier this week was Turner’s Green where George Lailey, widely known as the last traditional pole-lathe bowl turner in the country,...
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Understanding Bucklebury
Since we’ve gone a bit quiet about our progress on the cataloguing front recently, I thought I would let you know how we’ve been getting on over the past month or so. We have slowed down somewhat as...
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Object Photography
As we’re approaching the end of the week, and I’m trying to stop myself from getting distracted by news of all the Olympic medals that are being won today, I think it’s probably time for another short...
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Making computers understand the concept of an ‘object biography’
We’ve gone a bit quiet over recent months on the progress of our work with Historypin, so I thought it was perhaps time for an update on what we’ve been doing behind the scenes. If you go to the MERL...
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Promoting the work of ‘A Sense of Place’
Last night Felicity and I actually had an opportunity to share news of the Sense of Place project via an ‘old fashioned’ presentation, as opposed to virtually though our blog and other online media....
View ArticleWinding down for Christmas
2012 is drawing to a close and so is the Sense of Place project, with just a few more weeks when we come back in 2013. We’re frantically trying to reach 9000 records before the end of the year – we...
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Crowdsourcing with the Bucklebury History Group
Crowdsourcing in the Cottage Inn, Upper Bucklebury On Tuesday the Sense of Place team had another visit to the Berkshire village of Bucklebury to meet the local history group. This time we were joined...
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New Tours and Collections on Historypin!
As you will have read from Greta’s post Crowdsourcing with the Bucklebury History Group, we’ve been doing a lot of work over the past couple of weeks on our MERL Historypin channel. A large number of...
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Streetview and A Sense of Place
I was reading the BBC News Magazine online this morning and came across this article about Google street-view, and how, in the author’s opinion, its immersive nature is changing the way we interact...
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