Digital Collections

WWI Collection Day

by Bean an Phoist on March 20, 2013 · 0 comments

in Digital Collections,Events,Family History,Learning & Outreach

by Josh Hughes, NLI project intern and MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture, TCD On Thursday, 21 March 2013, the National Library of Ireland will host its third collection day on behalf of the Europeana 1914-1918 project. In an effort to preserve and make available to the public the stories, artefacts and photographs that many [...]

Tagged as: Crucifix, Dan Mullan, Edward Sherlock, Europeana, Europeana 1914-1918, Europeana Roadshows, Family History, First World War, Great War, James Burke, Josh Hughes, Maj. E. Sherlock M.C., Major Edward Sherlock, Memorabilia, Private James Burke, Pte. James Burke, WWI

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Error 404? The horror, The horror!

by Bean an Phoist on August 14, 2012 · 0 comments

in Digital Collections,Online Resources,Oscail,Projects

Have your say on Web Archiving at the National Library of Ireland by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student While it probably hasn’t quite made it into the Oxford English dictionary yet, the 404 File Not Found web error message has certainly moved beyond the realm of the technical and technical slang, and has now come [...]

Tagged as: 404, Catherine Ryan, Digital preservation, Error 404, Internet Memory Foundation, Kalev H. Leetaru, Preservation, TheJournal.ie, Web Archiving, Web crawling

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Then, Then and Now Photographic Projects

by Bean an Phoist on April 13, 2012 · 23 comments

in Cataloguing,Collections,Digital Collections,Digitisation,Guest Bloggers,Photographs,Projects

by Pádraig Laffan, Vice-Chairperson of The Federation of Local History Societies The Federation for Ulster Local Studies and The Federation of Local History Societies and The National Library Project Have you ever thought how great it would be to walk along by the Liffey with your grandchildren and to be able to say to them [...]

Tagged as: 10x8s, 12x8s, Aoife O'Connell, Catalogue, Cataloguing, Colette O'Flaherty, Dr. Pat Donlon, Dundalk, Federation for Ulster Local Studies, Federation of Local History Societies, Film, Fuji Ireland, Lawrence Collection, Lawrence Photographic Collection, Lawrence Photographic Project, Liam Clare, Local history, Local History Societies, National Library of Ireland, Our Own Place, Pádraig Laffan, Photographs, Photography, Prints, Robert French, RTÉ, Ulster Museum, Volunteers, W. Lawrence, William Lawrence