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Bounding an archiving: assessing the relative completeness of the Jacques Toussele archive using pattern-matching and face-recognition

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Archival research is haunted by the question of how complete are the archival fonds being consulted. In this article, we describe how we have used a combination of pattern-matching and face-recognition to evaluate the completeness of the Jacques Toussele photographic archive which was established as part of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library. A random set of scanned prints from the archive was matched with originating negatives also in the archive suggesting a survival r...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1080/1472586X.2021.1991238

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SAME
Oxford college:
Wolfson College
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-5853-7351
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Engineering Science
Oxford college:
Brasenose College
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-8945-8573
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis Publisher's website
Journal:
Visual Studies Journal website
Publication date:
2021-11-05
Acceptance date:
2021-09-23
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EISSN:
1472-5878
ISSN:
1472-586X
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1209103
Local pid:
pubs:1209103
Deposit date:
2022-01-20

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