Edinburgh, City of Print - an online illustrated and descriptive catalogue of holdings in City of Edinburgh Museum

在苏格兰，2008年是“印刷文字年”：庆祝作为一个不可分割的印刷和出版总部500年。从十九世纪开始，在接下来的150年里，爱丁堡拥有了开创性的技术，并在全球范围内提供印刷品。当工业在第二次世界大战后走向衰落时，大型工业文物被放入爱丁堡市博物馆的仓库，由于其规模和专业重点，一直没有被公众编目和看不见。爱丁堡市博物馆希望庆祝这些文物，并将它们和它们提供的信息重新纳入公共领域，对藏品进行全面编目，并将每件文物的所有细节、图像和用途上传到一个新网站，以及上下文打印信息。苏格兰出版和印刷历史记录档案馆（Scottish Archive of Publishing and Printing History Records）致力于记录苏格兰的印刷和出版历史。在SAPPHIRE的联合主任爱丁堡纳皮耶大学的Alistair McCleery教授和策展人Helen Clark女士的指导下，刚毕业的Sarah Bromage带领一小群志愿退休打印机研究，目录和开发一个致力于这一遗产的综合网站。拥有图书馆学硕士学位和博物馆和画廊研究学士学位，Sarah是该项目的理想候选人。印刷之城网站提供24小时虚拟访问的集合，重要的档案参考信息的形式，口头证词，纸张和照片记录，以及一个组合的人工制品：图像，背景信息，音频评论和任何相关的电影剪辑。该网站还提供了查找更多信息的链接，并欢迎观众反馈。博物馆现在已经完全编目了这批藏品，并尽最大努力提供重要但无法访问的藏品，拥抱爱丁堡的世界印刷遗产，并为“文化旅游”服务。它补充了SAPPHIRE倡议，并在“印刷文字年”期间成功地将知识从学术界转移到更广泛的公众。

In Scotland 2008 was the 'Year of the Printed Word': a celebration of 500 years as an integral printing and publishing head-quarter. From the start of the nineteenth century for the following 150 years Edinburgh hosted pioneering technologies and supplied print on a worldwide scale. When the industry went into decline following World War Two the big industrial relics were put into the City of Edinburgh Museum's storage and have remained there un-catalogued and unseen by the public ever since, due to their size and specialist focus. The City of Edinburgh Museum wants to celebrate these artefacts, and put them and the information they provide back into the public domain by comprehensively cataloguing the collection and uploading all details, images and uses of each artefact to a new website, alongside contextual printing information.The SAPPHIRE (Scottish Archive of Publishing and Printing History Records) initiative is dedicated to documenting the history of printing and publishing in Scotland. Under the guidance of SAPPHIRE's co-director Professor Alistair McCleery of Napier University, Edinburgh, and curator Ms Helen Clark, recent graduate Sarah Bromage led a small group of volunteer retired printers to research, catalogue and develop a comprehensive website dedicated to this heritage. With an MSc in Librarianship and a BA in Museums and Gallery Studies, Sarah was an ideal candidate for the project. The City of Print website offers 24 hour virtual access to the collections, important archival reference information in the form of oral testimonies, paper and photographic records, and a portfolio of the artefact: image, background information, audio commentary and any relevant movie clips. The website also offers links to find further information and welcomes audience feedback. The museum has now fully catalogued this stock and made important yet inaccessible collections available to the best of its ability, embracing Edinburgh's world printing heritage and serving 'cultural tourism'. It has complemented the SAPPHIRE initiative and successfully transferred knowledge from academia to the wider public, during the 'Year of the Printed Word'.