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.
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.
Open the example →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.
Open the example →How the gathering is kept in order, shown with an example: the intake worksheet, then the engagement's one workbook, with every source and the lawful way to reach it, what is and isn't collected, every signed permission, every request and every letter.
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