Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre have kindly shared a new case study with us. It will be of interest to anyone working with volunteers remotely and/or with online resources, particularly maps.
In 2020-21 a group of 4 volunteers worked from home during the lockdowns to pinpoint a collection of historic postcards to the Know Your Place historic maps website. By the end of the project, 324 historic postcards were geotagged to their relevant locations and added to the online maps. The work is a double first for Wiltshire Council’s History Centre – the first of its photographic collections to be added to the Wiltshire section of the Know Your Place (KYP) website and its first volunteer project to be completed remotely and online.
You can read the full report below. Thank you to Max Parkin (Archivist) and Julie Davis (County Local Studies Librarian) for sharing their work with CILIP LSG.
CILIP Local Studies Group 