Cultural Heritage Digital Imaging and (Rodents) of Unusual Sizes
Cultural Heritage Digital Imaging and (Rodents) of Unusual Sizes In-Person
Do you have rodents of unusual size lurking among your archival or historical materials? Hopefully not real ones gnawing away on your precious photographs, maps, documents, and other objects, but rather large or oddly-shaped materials that seem "inconceivable" to safely digitize. While this might not please Vizzini, one of the villains in The Princess Bride, we can help make the inconceivable conceivable by sharing ways to safely digitize those rodents of unusual size in your collections.
Join University of Calgary Digitization Specialist Rob Alexander in this informal workshop, open to anyone who would like to learn how to photograph large or unusually shaped historical materials. We'll discuss cultural heritage digitization and the techniques, tools, and software we use to capture our rodents of unusual size. These objects include a baseball signed by the 1934 American all-star team; an eight-foot long panorama photograph of Calgary (ca. 1914); insects; fire insurance plans; large-format negatives; and full-colour illustrations of birds from the late 1800s.
- Date:
- Wednesday, July 29, 2026
- Time:
- 1:30pm - 3:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Mountain Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Glenbow Western Research Centre - meeting room 220
- Campus:
- TFDL
- Audience:
- Faculty Graduate Public Undergraduate
- Categories:
- Historic Calgary Week