Artefacts, Archives and Ancient Egypt: Crowd-sourcing the EES object card records

Authors: Chiara Bonacchi

In 2015 the Egypt Exploration Society expanded its annual archive volunteer programme and made digitization its primary goal. Though the Society had already scanned a large number of archival documents and images, the new referencing system developed for the archive during 2014 had to be implemented across its virtual collections. To this end, the Society’s collections of object cards were felt to…