Tags » wellcome collection

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  Hyperfocus and hobbies

  The power of ADHD-associated hyperfocus and how I’ve become wary of feeding it too often.

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  Wellcome Collection’s approach to digital verification

  How we ensure the safety, security and integrity of the files in Wellcome’s digital collections.

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  Large things living in cold places

  Using cold storage tiers to reduce the cost of storing Wellcome’s digital collections in the cloud.

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  Building Wellcome Collection’s new archival storage service

  How we built the new cloud-based storage system for holding an ever-growing digital archive.

• Fare-Wellcome Collection

  After nearly seven years, it’s time for something new.

• How moving to the cloud took Wellcome’s digital collections to new heights

  Building our own platform allowed us to make decisions based on what’s best for the collections, and not the limitations of our digital infrastructure.

• Creating animated GIFs from fruit and veg

  Some Python code for turning MRI scans of fruit and veg into animated GIFs.

• Building Wellcome Collection’s new unified catalogue search

  Collaboration between our digital and collections teams helped to build a single search box for all of our catalogues.

• Replicating Wellcome Collection’s digital archive to Azure Blob Storage

  How and why we keep copies of Wellcome’s digital collections in multiple cloud storage providers.

• Storing multiple, human-readable versions of BagIt bags

  How we use the fetch.txt file in a bag to track multiple copies of an object in our digital archive.

• Digital preservation at Wellcome Collection

  Slides from a presentation about our processes, practices, and tools.

• Peering through MRI scans of fruit and veg

  What do you see when you pass fruit and vegetables through an MRI scanner? And how many animated GIFs can you make?

• Creating a data store from S3 and DynamoDB

  A new storage layer for large records in the Catalogue pipeline.

• Getting helpful CloudWatch alarms in Slack

  How we use AWS Lambda to send messages about our CloudWatch alarms to Slack, and some ways we add context and information to make those messages as helpful as possible.

• Using Loris for IIIF at Wellcome

  How we use Loris to provide a IIIF Image API for browsing our collections at Wellcome–how it runs in AWS, store our high-resolution images, and monitor the service.