Digital biography Examples · 24 September 2026
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Examples

Worked examples of digital biography: real material, each shown with a plain account of how it was made. Collections that belong to other people have the owner's name removed; the catalogue-maker's own are shown as they are.

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A working library, catalogued

A personal library of four hundred books, read from photographs of the shelves, identified and linked to reference sources, with a synopsis for each and a wishlist of what's still to find.

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A film collection, catalogued

A physical collection brought into the record: read from photographs of the shelves, checked item by item against the publisher's list, and given room for the owner's own notes.

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