Thank you all for your patience. I'd like to give you an update on our website upgrades. We are progressing with getting the right person in post and commencing scoping and work on all the research websites. Please bear in mind that this involves websites and open research in areas other than photographic history. By working together, we have put in place a long term solution that will hopefully lead to stable delivery for many years to come. Currently we expect that by the end of August we should begin bringing sites back online one at a time, and I will announce when each one is up and running.
For those of you who are anxious about moving forward with your research over the summer, several enterprising Talbot scholars have come up with hacks that do give you some results. For instance, although Talbot Correspondence search is not working, a google search for, say, 'Talbot, Brewster, Spectrum' will give you a letter as a result in your search, with the full transcript. This hack unfortunately doesn't seem as effective with the exhibitions websites.
Several of our sites don't seem to be affected at all and are running as normal.
Roger Fenton's Crimean Letterbooks
Members of the Royal Photographic Society
The Journal of Amelina Petit de Billier
are all working well, even if not always perfectly. We will carry out the minor fixes on these websites after re-launching the ones most affected.
Again, I want to thank you all for your patience, and for the many users who have written directly. As soon as we begin relaunching sites, I will post again here.
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