Opening up an archive of images to the world

archaeologicalnews:

Oxford University researchers are launching a new app that asks people to help identify old pictures ranging from flooded city streets to pre-First World War spy photos.

The Historic Environment Image Resource (HEIR) is an archive of 38,000 digitised slides which until now has remained uncatalogued.

Researchers at the Institute of Archaeology have already digitised 11,000 of the 100-year-old images, all taken by Oxford academics, and will soon be releasing an app to allow people view the images and help identify them.

Project co-director Dr Sally Crawford said the images would become available from May. Read more.