About the organisation
The Watercolour World
The Watercolour World is a UK registered charity, but a global project, which aims to visually recreate the world before photography by working with public and private collections to aggregate pre-1900 watercolours of record onto a single geographically-indexed website – www.watercolourworld.org The project is entirely directed towards the public benefit globally, with no commercial purpose, and is created as a valuable resource for research and education

The Watercolour World is looking for volunteers with an interest in visual history and digital projects. TWW aims to visually recreate the world before photography by working with public and private collections to aggregate pre-1900 watercolours of record onto a single geographically-indexed website – www.watercolourworld.org We need volunteers to assist in the processing and collating of information from the collections, categorising, tagging and geolocating the images. A great opportunity for anyone with an eye for detail and an interest in history and/or geography and who would like to be introduced to the way the world was recorded pre-1900
To help us recreate the world before photography and reach our target of 100,000 images by the end of the summer
The role includes sorting through images of documentary watercolours, identifying those relevant to the project, researching their location, and categorising and tagging images by content and subject matter, and/or helping to research new open source collections
An eye for detail, general knowledge of history and geography and an interest in visual history and digital projects.
Volunteers will be guided through the process when they arrive. Members of the team will be on hand to answer any questions.
Created: Mon, 09/09/2019 - 15:58
Last updated: Mon, 09/09/2019 - 16:58