PRIVATE CLUB ARCHIVE, 2011-PRESENT

This club, with a history of over 70 years, has an amazing collection of historic images, documents and objects which were not part of an organized archive structure. It presented multiple challenges, because a large part of the historic records consisted of paper documents which required special expertise to be brought into the project. Secondly, a comprehensive survey had to be undertaken. This multi-year project was initiated and continues to be supervised by me.

Corporate Digital Archive, 2011-2012

An overseas client with a large film archive of hundreds of thousands of images and recent years digital captures was looking to integrate all images into a customized digital asset management system for company wide retrieval. The initial assessment revealed that equipment and workstations required upgrades and that additional staff had to be hired and trained.  While production continued with over 1,000 images created and processed daily, close cooperation with department heads at all stages assured very little disruptions to operations. On the job staff training led to significant improvements in the quality of the image capture, very efficient file processing and a professional digital workflow from input to output.

• Equipment Sourcing And Procurement
• Staff Training and Development
• Film Negative Scanning to Digital Positive Conversion
• Digital Workflow Optimization
• Comprehensive Color Management Implementation
• DAM Catalog Configuration

Heritage Site Documentation, 2011

The client had only a very limited time frame to document a heritage site before major renovation works had to take place. High-resolution images were required from every possible angle (and different elevations) to create a detailed three-dimensional representation of the site with accurate texture mapping. All images were to be taken during normal operation hours therefore the set-up had to be flexible. As an additional feature the client required freeze-action capture, in order to document the publics use of the site. Within ten days, a mobile multi-camera set-up was designed, built, tested and deployed for the use at this overseas site.

Non-profit Organisation Archive, 2009-2011

Over three decades a non-profit organization had produced and collected documents on ethnic minorities and explored remote regions of Asia. The large quantity of unique and irreplaceable film images, video and artifacts was kept in several locations without a coherent system of organisation. The longterm survival of this collection was under threat due to improper storage conditions and the lack of easy access to the material hampered its use for publication and research. The chairman of the board initiated the project of setting up an archive office to efficiently digitize and then archival store the film based images. A digital asset management system was implemented to integrate newer digital images with the digitized film images and to track the use. In addition, the website of the organization required a complete re-design in order to reflect the wide range of activities and projects undertaken.

• Assess all relevant materials for archive integration
• Development of a fast, high-resolution film digitization system
• Set-up of archive office with archival storage fascilities
• Implementation of a digital asset management system
• Custom app development for archive support
• Progress Reports to the Board of Directors