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Related: About this forumCERN is Asking for Your Help in Figuring Out What These Archive Photos Show
Mystery photos from CERN's history
Over the first 50 years of its existence, before digital photography became the norm, CERN accumulated about a quarter of a million hard-copy images in its archive. Now, a project is underway to digitise the entire collection and make it searchable via the CERN Document Server (CDS).
Some 120,000 black and white images from the period 1955-1985 are currently being digitised, with files being uploaded in batches of several hundred per week. They are then automatically sorted into albums based on the existing information.
In most cases, at least some descriptions exist, allowing us to identify the pictures.
However, many albums are still in need of titles, the names of the people in the photos, descriptions of equipment, etc., and we believe that much of this information could be crowd-sourced from the CERN community. Here are some highlights from the first few thousand uploads, some of which we do have information about:
Over the first 50 years of its existence, before digital photography became the norm, CERN accumulated about a quarter of a million hard-copy images in its archive. Now, a project is underway to digitise the entire collection and make it searchable via the CERN Document Server (CDS).
Some 120,000 black and white images from the period 1955-1985 are currently being digitised, with files being uploaded in batches of several hundred per week. They are then automatically sorted into albums based on the existing information.
In most cases, at least some descriptions exist, allowing us to identify the pictures.
However, many albums are still in need of titles, the names of the people in the photos, descriptions of equipment, etc., and we believe that much of this information could be crowd-sourced from the CERN community. Here are some highlights from the first few thousand uploads, some of which we do have information about:
Please get in touch by email (photo.archive@cern.ch) if you have any information about the pictures.
Go here to view more: http://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2014/43/News%20Articles/1955523?ln=en
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CERN is Asking for Your Help in Figuring Out What These Archive Photos Show (Original Post)
progressoid
Oct 2014
OP
That third one looks like my video processor...might be time to buy a new computer.
Lochloosa
Oct 2014
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murielm99
(30,741 posts)1. Thank you.
I sent the link on to some friends and family at FermiLab.
littlemissmartypants
(22,656 posts)2. Kicking. Thank you. nt
True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)3. Clearly the scientist in that image is reversing the polarity.
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lastlib
(23,234 posts)4. Since they wouldn't let me play with subatomic particles, I can't be much help
Sorry.
Lochloosa
(16,064 posts)5. That third one looks like my video processor...might be time to buy a new computer.
yourout
(7,528 posts)6. Is one of them a Flux Capacitor? 1.21 jigawatts?
lastlib
(23,234 posts)8. I'm absolutely certain it is.....
(if it isn't, it oughta be.)
muriel_volestrangler
(101,318 posts)7. Top: "John sets up his new Linn Tokamak Mk VIII tonearm ...
... this'll show that audiophile b*****d Philipe who's got the best set-up!"