MIRO Images
Before responding, make sure you understand what you're looking at on WC.org
For guidance on identifying MIRO images and resolving incorrectly linked images see the Online/digital images with static Miro metadata pages
This presentation is a useful introduction to Wellcome Images/MIRO images.
Dear [name],
Thank you for your enquiry regarding [IMAGE] in the collection.
The link you’ve sent is actually for a digital image that’s been orphaned from its catalogue record. First, many thanks for bringing this to our attention to we can rectify the issue.
The image is now linked to the reference [ITEM REF]. The full catalogue record for this book is: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/tx8xjdug.
Many thanks again for drawing this to our attention.
Yours sincerely,
[Name and job title]
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I’m sorry you are having trouble accessing contextual information for our collection. The image you shared with me is actually part of a rather problematic section of our collection, the ‘L series’ which comprises images of Wellcome Library material and activities as well as images of material from external collections. The images and associated metadata were accessible via Wellcome Images from 2007 until it was decommissioned in 2017. The images are now available on our current catalogue, but unfortunately significant problems at the point of transfer has meant that we cannot edit the associate metadata and we need to catalogue the entire series of about 88,000 records manually. This is a large task, and we have not yet started this work as we have prioritised another series (‘M’ Series) as it contains more sensitive images. As part of this cataloguing process we would naturally look at linking the images to associated source texts, and adding context, but this work is not scheduled in the near future.
However, we have plenty over images and sources in other parts of the collection with useful metadata, I’ve run a quick search on ‘idiocy’ and filtered by archives and manuscripts and it has returned the following results. I’ve also searched for ‘idiot’ and filtered by ‘pictures’ and it returns the following results. I recommend you play around with different search terms and filters to see if you can get the range of results you need for your students. Please do get back in touch if you need any help framing searches.
The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (precursor to Wellcome Collection) created a set of glass plate negatives, starting in the 1920s and carrying on until the 1960s. The glass plates comprised images of objects held by the museum, images of exhibitions and museum activities and also what we’d probably today call working documentation: photocopies of book pages and illustration, images of artefacts and objects held elsewhere and other material photographed as part of general background research and scoping for exhibitions. These glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s but in many cases were only given basic or incomplete metadata. We are currently working to improve this metadata, correct errors and add additional information where we can find it.
Thank you for your enquiry. This is an image previously made available through the Wellcome Images service, which was decommissioned in 2017. The image is no longer available on wellcomecollection.org but can be downloaded from [external source]
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