A Day in the Field: Going up Mt Alderson

Dec 14, 2022 | MLP News, Notes from the Field

The Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) now boasts over 10,000 repeat photographs collected over close to three decades. Our repeat photography involves intense fieldwork across Canada’s mountain landscapes. In the following series of blog posts, we turn our focus...

PART 2: Spatial analysis of repeated oblique images to study change in mountain landscapes

Apr 11, 2022 | MLP News

By Claire Wright | April 11, 2022 In the previous blog, Origins of Repeat Photography as Tool for Monitoring Landscape Change, I argued that repeat photography is an effective and flexible technique for examining change in mountain landscapes. With historic...

PART 1: Origins of repeat photography as a tool for monitoring change in mountain landscapes

Apr 2, 2022 | MLP News

  By Claire Wright | April 2, 2022 Mountain landscapes are often perceived of as part of the last ‘untouched’ wilderness in the world. In reality, they have long been homelands for Indigenous peoples and are subject to intense and widespread change as a result of...

MLP Explorer: A brand new (digital) face

Feb 26, 2022 | MLP News, MLP research

Eric Higgs, Mar 1, 2022 The Mountain Legacy Project launched a brand new Explorer tool. Building on our previous public-facing website it is a future-oriented platform for serving up images and information about the world’s largest systematic collection of mountain...

Re-Reading the Archival Photographs: Mining Scientific Photography to Build Many Meanings

May 18, 2021 | Historic photos, MLP News, MLP research

Jill Delaney, Lead Archivist, Photography, Private Archives, Library and Archives CanadaMay18, 2021 I write this blog from the unceded traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg (Algonquin) peoples in Ottawa, Ontario. The historical photographs discussed in this post...

Digital Permanence in the era of Open Science

Apr 27, 2021 | MLP News, MLP research

Shahira Khair, Data Curation Librarian at the University of Victoria Libraries | April 27, 2021 As our lives become increasingly digital through our growing reliance on digital tools for communication, work and entertainment (which has only accelerated through the...