Congratulations Stephen, this looks great. It also overlaps beautifully
with a database we've just (very belatedly, like more than 2 years
belatedly) put online, at www.photolondon.org.uk/default.asp. This is
built on the huge work undertaken by photographic historian David Webb,
who has collated biographical information on thousands of people in the
photographic industry in Victorian London. I would love to investigate
with you how we might link the two datasets together (I'm already
itching to RESTify the search engine). Looking through the list of
exhibitors (http://erps.dmu.ac.uk/exhibitors.php?char1s=A&techyn=all)
and comparing it to our own I find some matches (e.g. Jessie Akhurst),
though not as many as I expected. I'm sure, though, that there must be
plenty of people and organisations in both sites.
Given the stats and feedback we're getting from our site, I wouldn't be
surprised if you find that a lot of your traffic comes from genealogy
sites/interests. I'm mulling over how to maximise the benefits of this
(after all, museums should be serving this aspect of social history
research as much as anything), but one thing that has occurred to me is
to look into hooking the site directly into the search engines of
genealogy websites.
Cheers, Jeremy
Jeremy Ottevanger
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Subject: [MCG] Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915
Apologies for cross posting.
Im pleased to announce the availability of 'Exhibitions of the Royal
Photographic Society 1870-1915' http://erps.dmu.ac.uk
<http://erps.dmu.ac.uk/>
This is an online research database of over 45,000 records from the
annual exhibition catalogues of the Photographic Society, London,
published between 1870 and 1915. It contains detailed records of all
the exhibits, plus information about exhibitors, judges, hanging and
selecting committee members. It also contains reproductions of all the
catalogue pages and all the pictures of the photographs that were
printed in the catalogues, plus further pictures and reviews of the
exhibitions published in the contemporary publication Photograms of the
Year. The interface allows visitors to browse the data, pictures and the
catalogue pages, to search for specific information and to refine and
export search results.
'Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915' was developed
with the assistance of an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
resource enhancement grant.
For further information please contact Stephen Brown: [log in to unmask]
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