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This page is a work in progress to support volunteers on the Courtauld Institute of Art Courtauld Connects Digitisation Project. However, all Wikipedians are of course welcome (this goes without saying, but for the benefit of newcomers!)! Please feel free to make changes and additions in format and content, and use the Talk page to leave questions and comments.
This project was established to support especially Courtauld Digitisation Project volunteers to create and edit Wikipedia pages related to the Conway Library. The Conway Library is a collection of over 1.6 million photographs. These photographs are of architecture, design, manuscripts, and fine art objects. These photographs have historically only been accessible in person, at the Courtauld Institute of Art (first at Portland Square, now in the North East Wing of Somerset House).
Photographs in the collection are usually pasted to a cardboard mount. The mounts frequently include a written name, or a stamp, that indicates who took the photograph.
Since 2017, volunteers have been transcribing the names written on mounts. So we now have a list of names. However: quite often the name is all we have. Since the start of COVID19 shutdown, volunteers have been researching these names to build profiles for them, so that we can create brand new, or edit existing, Wikipedia pages for people who contributed to the photographic collection. We will be adding photographs taken by the photographers to Wikimedia as appropriate.
Volunteers and Wikipedians are encouraged to use and add to the resources on this project page to help bring the Conway Library to Wikipedia.