BCRA Online Archive - Remote Image Retrieval Reimplemented

[langcliffe]

I have re-engineered the section of the BCRA Online Archive software which is responsible for downloading images from a remote server, primarily to limit how much an archivist has to know about protocols and PHP libraries when specifying the details of a new server. It shouldn't make any difference to people's browsing experience, but if you do come across any idiosyncrasies or "anomalies and exceptions" (otherwise known as bugs), do please let me know.

To put it into context, the images of the BSA, Myers, Pill and Butterfield collections are all held on a BCRA cloud server, and are retrieved on demand.

 

[Jenny P]

I have re-engineered the section of the BCRA Online Archive software which is responsible for downloading images from a remote server, primarily to limit how much an archivist has to know about protocols and PHP libraries when specifying the details of a new server. It shouldn't make any difference to people's browsing experience, but if you do come across any idiosyncrasies or "anomalies and exceptions" (otherwise known as bugs), do please let me know.

To put it into context, the images of the BSA, Myers, Pill and Butterfield collections are all held on a BCRA cloud server, and are retrieved on demand.

It's an amazing site and an incredible resource. I've just spent about 5 hours searching through old BSA records on the site in an attempt to find a particular set of minutes from 1939 and it's amazing what is there.
Another section well worth a look is the Peter Binns collection of photos, and this also includes his schoolboy diaries, caving with Eli Simpson in 1934 and '35. Check out the Rev. Black as well - caving from 1934 to 1941 with a camera he'd made himself.