Oxford Duplication Centre Ltd

Scanning Archival Photographic Images - Community Heritage Projects Our archive department has been busy working on Oxford United Football Club's archive of photographs.   Before we scan the photos, it is important to consider the way in which the files will be organised. Either by date, event, image size and how the files will be names.    Handling and Cleaning Photographs Our archive suite ensures to carefully handle the photographic historical items by their edges to avoid damage from fingerprints.  Fingerprints are a significant threat to photographic materials and can be very difficult to correct. Fingerprints may not manifest in photographic materials until long after the actual incident of touching the surface.  Air blowers are used to remove dust and a lint-free wipe or cloth to clean the scanning bed before scanning. Our archive technicians wear cotton or latex gloves when handling historical items.  Dust on historical items and scanning beds ...

When you walk into our office, you will be immediately greeted by 5 friendly female faces in our open plan archival digitisation suite.  We could say we employ females in the archiving role for their accuracy and attention to detail but that would be stereotyping.   Our audio-video engineers, who happen to be male, are tucked away in the large audio-visual engineers’ room at the back of the office. We could say they are male because there are lots of gadgets to play with, but that would also be stereotyping.  It is in fact just the way it worked out and there are lots of gadgets involved with archival as well as it happens, and the audio-visual engineers have to be timely and accurate also. “Imagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination. A world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women's equality. Collectively we can all #BreakTheBias. Celebrate women's a...