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Title
A name given to the resource
Architecture and Place
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Humanist Library and Archives
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2016
Description
An account of the resource
A collection of digitised items from the Humanist Library and Archives telling the story of buildings and spaces occupied by the Conway Hall Ethical Society (formerly the South Place Ethical Society). Also includes several born digital items.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Conway Hall Ethical Society
Subject
The topic of the resource
Architecture
Conway Hall (London, England)
South Place Chapel, Finsbury
Mansford, Frederick Herbert (1871-1946)
Language
A language of the resource
English
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Original Format
The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
Photo
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Title
A name given to the resource
115 - 123 High Street, Ruislip, London
Description
An account of the resource
Front view of shops, offices and flats designed by architect Frederick Herbert Mansford.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Hawkey-Edwards, Sophie
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2016
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Conway Hall Ethical Society
Subject
The topic of the resource
Architecture
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
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Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpeg
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Still Image
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
BD-AP0001
Mansford, Frederick Herbert (1871-1946)
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Title
A name given to the resource
Architecture and Place
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Humanist Library and Archives
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2016
Description
An account of the resource
A collection of digitised items from the Humanist Library and Archives telling the story of buildings and spaces occupied by the Conway Hall Ethical Society (formerly the South Place Ethical Society). Also includes several born digital items.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Conway Hall Ethical Society
Subject
The topic of the resource
Architecture
Conway Hall (London, England)
South Place Chapel, Finsbury
Mansford, Frederick Herbert (1871-1946)
Language
A language of the resource
English
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Original Format
The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
Photo
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
13-15 King's End, Ruislip, London
Description
An account of the resource
Front view of semi-detached house designed and lived in by Frederick Herbert Mansford.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Hawkey-Edwards, Sophie
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2016
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Conway Hall Ethical Society
Subject
The topic of the resource
Architecture
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpeg
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Still Image
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
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An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
BD-AP0002
Mansford, Frederick Herbert (1871-1946)
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Architecture and Place
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Humanist Library and Archives
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2016
Description
An account of the resource
A collection of digitised items from the Humanist Library and Archives telling the story of buildings and spaces occupied by the Conway Hall Ethical Society (formerly the South Place Ethical Society). Also includes several born digital items.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Conway Hall Ethical Society
Subject
The topic of the resource
Architecture
Conway Hall (London, England)
South Place Chapel, Finsbury
Mansford, Frederick Herbert (1871-1946)
Language
A language of the resource
English
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Alex Thomas inside a model of the main hall of Conway Hall
Description
An account of the resource
An interior view of a model of the main hall of Conway Hall that also includes Alex Thomas, one of the creators of the model.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Feilden, Fergus
Fowles, Edmund
Ross, John
Thomas, Alex
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Conway Hall Ethical Society
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2004
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
© Fergus Feildon, Edmund Fowles, John Ross and Alex Thomas. Digitised with their kind permission.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpeg
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Still Image
Subject
The topic of the resource
Architectural models
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
BD-AP0014
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Title
A name given to the resource
Architecture and Place
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Humanist Library and Archives
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2016
Description
An account of the resource
A collection of digitised items from the Humanist Library and Archives telling the story of buildings and spaces occupied by the Conway Hall Ethical Society (formerly the South Place Ethical Society). Also includes several born digital items.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Conway Hall Ethical Society
Subject
The topic of the resource
Architecture
Conway Hall (London, England)
South Place Chapel, Finsbury
Mansford, Frederick Herbert (1871-1946)
Language
A language of the resource
English
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Alex Thomas inside a model of the main hall of Conway Hall
Description
An account of the resource
An exterior view of a model of the main hall of Conway Hall that also includes Alex Thomas, one of the creators of the model.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Feilden, Fergus
Fowles, Edmund
Ross, John
Thomas, Alex
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Conway Hall Ethical Society
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2004
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
© Fergus Feildon, Edmund Fowles, John Ross and Alex Thomas. Digitised with their kind permission.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpeg
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The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Still Image
Subject
The topic of the resource
Architectural models
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An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
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A name given to the resource
Architecture and Place
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Humanist Library and Archives
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2016
Description
An account of the resource
A collection of digitised items from the Humanist Library and Archives telling the story of buildings and spaces occupied by the Conway Hall Ethical Society (formerly the South Place Ethical Society). Also includes several born digital items.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Conway Hall Ethical Society
Subject
The topic of the resource
Architecture
Conway Hall (London, England)
South Place Chapel, Finsbury
Mansford, Frederick Herbert (1871-1946)
Language
A language of the resource
English
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Carved relief on right-hand side of South Place Ethical Society lectern
Description
An account of the resource
A carved relief, William Rawlings 1859-1930, on the right-hand side of a South Place Ethical Society lectern.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Feilden, Fergus
Fowles, Edmund
Ross, John
Thomas, Alex
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Conway Hall Ethical Society
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2004
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
© Fergus Feildon, Edmund Fowles, John Ross and Alex Thomas. Digitised with their kind permission.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpeg
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Still Image
Subject
The topic of the resource
Furniture design
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
BD-AP0015
Rawlings, William (1859-1930)
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Companion Guide for Copyright Due
Diligence
This document provides additional assistance and should be used in conjunction with the following
documents:
•
•
•
•
Orphan Works Licensing Scheme: Overview for Applicants;
Orphan Works Diligent Search Guidance for Applicants: Still Visual Art;
Orphan Works Diligent Search Guidance for Applicants: Literary Works; and,
Any others 1 which are deemed necessary for the works being considered for digitisation.
The steps to be followed when undertaking due diligence are as follows:
1. Determine work copyright status (where possible)
2. If work is not in the public domain, not licenced under Creative Commons or another nonCopyright provision, you do not own the copyright yourself and do not know who to request
copyright permission from, then start copyright due diligence
3. Depending on outcome of due diligence you may:
a. Identify the copyright holder and request permission to digitise from them
b. Fail to identify current copyright holder
4. If you fail to identify the current copyright holder you may (as of November 2016)
a. License the work as an orphan work under the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO)
Orphan Works Licensing Scheme, or
b. License the work as an orphan work under the EU Orphan Works Directive
2012/28/EU2 provided the work meets certain criteria
Copyright Status
Each works requires that its copyright status be determined. You may already know this or you can
use Annex B, duration of copyright flowcharts, in the guidance documents referenced above. Please
record the copyright status once found in a due diligence spreadsheet; this will help track which
items require further due diligence work and which do not.
If an item is:
•
•
•
1
2
In the public domain then digitise as such using tools found here:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/
Licenced under Creative Commons or other copyleft provision then digitise and license as
instructed by the original licence
Owned by Conway Hall Ethical Society or the library, then digitise under an appropriate
Creative Commons licence: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/
See https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/orphan-works-guidance for latest versions of documents.
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:299:0005:0012:EN:PDF
�•
In copyright and you know the identity of the copyright holder, then contact the copyright
holder and request permission to digitise the item (also ask if you may use reproductions to
promote digitisation project).
If the item’s copyright status does not match any of these conditions then undertake copyright due
diligence.
Copyright Due Diligence
Copyright due diligence is undertaken to:
1. Assist you in identifying a current copyright holder, or failing that,
2. Allow you to demonstrate that the work is an orphan work and therefore can either be
licenced for use via the UK IPO or the EU Orphan Works Directive.
Licensing via one of the orphan works schemes is a risk mitigation enterprise. Many heritage
institutions digitise without making use of these licensing schemes as the risk of being litigated
against by a copyright holder for an orphan work is very small. A decision to not make use of the
scheme is dependent on the level of risk presented by digitising without licensing versus the level of
risk aversion of the institution.
The UK IPO due diligence checklists are used for this process. The notes given below are additional
guidance for undertaking copyright due diligence developed throughout the Architecture and Place
digitisation project and thus all checklists are not currently covered by this advice.
In addition to the guidance below, make use of completed checklists that were accepted for
licensing (see Architecture and Place files) as examples.
Standalone Visual Art
The checklist for standalone visual art is quite long but you will not need to complete a search for
particular sections of it if they don’t relate to your work’s medium, i.e. you won’t have to undertake
searches for photography organisations if the item in question is a drawing.
Source
UK Orphan Works Register
Credits and other
information appearing on
the work
FOB database
Companies House
Metadata
The provenance of the
work
Details
https://www.orphanworkslicensing.service.gov.uk/view-register
As described.
http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/watch/fob.cfm
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk
For digitally born or digitised items – can be found in record for item
(if it exists) or is embedded in digital object itself. For images, open in
Irfanview, click on ‘image’ menu and then ‘information.’ At the bottom
left of image properties there are two buttons, ‘EXIF info’ and ‘IPTC
info’ – check the metadata included here for creator name or other
identifiers. You can also use: http://regex.info/exif.cgi to check
embedded metadata.
For archives check finding aid/catalogue. For library items check
catalogue notes.
�General internet searching
Water mark search or
image recognition
software
Association of
Photographers (AOP)
British Association of
Picture Libraries and
Agencies (BAPLA)
British Institute of
Professional
Photographers (BIPP)
British Press
Photographers Association
(BPPA)
British Society of
Underwater
Photographers (BSUP)
Bureau of Freelance
Photographers (BFP)
Chartered Institute of
Journalists (CIOJ)
Editorial Photographers UK
(EPUK)
Master Photographers
Association (MPA)
National Association of
Press Agencies (NAPA)
National Union of
Journalists (NUJ)
Outdoor Writers and
Photographers Guild
(OWPG)
Pro-Imaging
Redeye Network
Royal Academy of Art
Royal Photographic Society
(RPS)
This is likely to be done several times throughout the due diligence
check as new information comes to light.
For digitally born or digitised items – You can search Google Images by
image (go to https://images.google.com/ and click on the camera to
upload the digital image) to attempt image recognition. There are
freely available watermark search applications but different
watermarking programmes may code digital watermarks differently
and so the search applications may not be useful if they do not
recognise the specific code for a digital watermark.
http://www.the-aop.org/ founded in 1968. Requires photographer
name to search by.
BAPLA has an Orphan Works search request page
(http://www.bapla.org.uk/en/feedback/show_feedback_page.html)
but when used received very few responses and email address was
added to some libraries and agencies email lists which was annoying. If
you have a particular topic which is covered here:
http://www.bapla.org.uk/en/pages/show_subject_search.html then
you can click through, open up all the appropriate webpages for that
topic and search using appropriate keywords.
http://www.bipp.com/Default.aspx?tabid=87 founded 1901. Search
for contemporary photographers by name.
https://thebppa.com/galleries/ founded in 1984. Search for
contemporary photographers by name.
http://www.bsoup.org/Links/Members.php or
http://www.bsoup.org/Contributors.php founded in 1967. Search for
contemporary underwater photographers by name.
http://www.thebfp.com/ search using search box. May have to contact
by email.
Website currently hacked – website is http://cioj.co.uk/
http://www.epuk.org/ founded in 1999. Search contemporary
photographers by name.
http://www.masterphotographersassociation.co.uk/ founded in 1952.
Search contemporary photographers by name.
http://www.napa.org.uk/directory.aspx founded in 1982. Search
contemporary people by name.
https://www.nuj.org.uk/home/ founded in 1907. Search for
contemporary members by name.
http://www.owpg.org.uk/member-profiles/ founded in 1980. Search
for contemporary people by name.
http://www.pro-imaging.org/ founded in 2004. Search for
contemporary image makers by name.
https://www.redeye.org.uk/portfolios founded in 1998. Search for
contemporary photographers by name.
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/ - search by creator name and/or
appropriate keywords
http://www.rps.org/membership/member-search founded in 1853.
Search for photographer by name.
�Royal Scottish Academy of
Art
Society of Wedding and
Portrait Photographers
Association of Illustrators
(AOI)
Cartoonists’ Club of Great
Britain (CCGB)
Comic Creators Guild (CCG)
Guild of Railway Artists
(GRA)
Institute of Medical
Illustrators (IMI)
Professional Cartoonists’
Organisation (PCO)
Royal British Society of
Sculptors (RBSS)
Society for Architectural
Illustration (SAI)
Illustration portfolios
Commercial photography
agencies and libraries
CEPIC
Library of Congress
DACS
Artist Collecting Society
WATCH (Writers Artists
and their Copyright
Holders)
BBC painting database
http://www.royalscottishacademy.org/ search by creator name and/or
appropriate keywords.
https://www.swpp.co.uk/find_photographer.htm founded in 1988.
Search for contemporary photographer by name.
http://www.theaoi.com/portfolios/index.php/portfolios/artists
founded in 1973. Search for contemporary artist by name.
http://www.ccgb.org.uk/gallery/ founded in 1960. Search for
contemporary cartoonists by name.
Unable to search; website no longer available.
http://www.railart.co.uk/gallery.html founded in the 1970s. Search for
contemporary artist by name.
http://www.imi.org.uk/find-a-professional founded in 1968. Search for
contemporary illustrator by keyword and geographic location.
http://procartoonists.org/portfolios/?order=alphabetical founded in
2006. Search for contemporary cartoonist by name.
http://rbs.org.uk/artists/list founded in 1905. Search for sculptor by
name.
http://www.sai.org.uk/illustrators/ founded in 1975. Search for
contemporary architectural illustrator by name.
Direct links offered in UK IPO guidance (p. 13).
Direct links offered in UK IPO guidance (p. 14). However as many of
these would be searched as a part of the BAPLA search you may
choose to do the Photo Archive News, Stock Index Online and Press
Photo History Project only instead. Note which searched in checklist.
CEPIC is a membership organisation for photo libraries and thus is not
of much use when searching for a particular photographer. CEPIC does
not offer, at this time, facilities to search across the collections of their
members’ libraries and so it is appropriate to note “Not applicable,
have searched all relevant picture libraries elsewhere in checklist” on
the checklist.
https://www.loc.gov/
Use https://www.dacs.org.uk/licensing-works/artist-search to search
by name if known; use https://www.artimage.org.uk/ to search by
keyword for match to image.
Search http://artistscollectingsociety.org/members/ by artist name if
known.
http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/watch/
The BBC painting database (Your Paintings) no longer exists and has
been replaced by ArtUK: http://artuk.org/
Library indexes and
Search the British Library
museum catalogues
http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=BLVU
1 and WorldCat http://www.worldcat.org/ catalogues as well as any
identified museum catalogues appropriate to the creator or work.
CopyrightHub
http://www.copyrighthub.co.uk/get-permission provides guidance on
where to look for permission depending on medium. For many graphic
and textual works you may include, “all options offered there searched
elsewhere in checklist,” if true.
Image registers
https://www.plusregistry.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/PlusDB
Web based search tools for https://picscout.com/solutions/search/ and click ‘Launch Tool’.
�images (PicScout and
TinEye)
British Journal of
Photography
University art faculty
alumni
Arts Council
Digitised newspaper
archives
Genealogy websites
Wills – searching for family
members or connections
of the author
Archives
Treasury solicitors
Other sources identified
https://www.tineye.com/ You may have to resize and make images
smaller as large images (10MB or more) can cause PicScout to timeout.
A British Journal of Photography editorial staff member
http://www.bjp-online.com/contact-us/ may be contacted if you know
a photographer’s name. Make sure to include the photographer’s
name, time when active, where they were based and any other salient
details your query and state that you are looking to contact the
photographer (if contemporary) or their copyright holder. Ask whether
there was any mention of photographer in the magazine or its earlier
incarnations.
A search may be undertaken if the Art School/University of creator is
known.
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/
http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ Subscription service.
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/ Subscription service.
https://familysearch.org/ requires an account (which is free) and may
offer different resources than those available on Ancestry.
https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills Requires surname and
date of death. Please note tabs for searching – deaths after 1996,
deaths between 1858 and 1996, and soldiers wills. At time of writing it
costs £10/will. There are some wills accessible via the National
Archives (see link below)
ArchivesHub: http://archiveshub.ac.uk/, the National Archives:
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/, and AIM25:
http://www.aim25.com/
The unclaimed estates list (CSV file) can be downloaded from
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/unclaimedestates-list and searched by creator or copyright holder name if
known.
Other sources may become apparent while undertaking due diligence
and when searched can be noted here.
Unpublished Still Visual Art
The sources required for this checklist are covered in the above source list for Standalone Visual Art.
Unpublished Literary Works
This checklist will be used for unpublished letters, notes, manuscripts and so on and used extensively
for archival material. The sources required for this checklist are also covered in the above source list
for Standalone Visual Art.
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Digitisation Working Documents and Reports
Description
An account of the resource
A collection of documents created during the planning, implementation and evaluation stages of digitisation projects of the Humanist Library and Archives, Conway Hall.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Humanist Library and Archives
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2017
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Conway Hall Ethical Society
Subject
The topic of the resource
Digitization
Language
A language of the resource
English
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Companion guide for copyright due diligence
Description
An account of the resource
A companion guide for the copyright due diligence checklists and guides supplied by the UK Intellectual Property Office.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Callaghan, Samantha
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2016
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Conway Hall Ethical Society
Subject
The topic of the resource
Copyright
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
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An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
BD-DD0003
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
application/pdf
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The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Language
A language of the resource
English
Administration
Conway Hall Ethical Society
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Conway Hall Digital Collections Omeka.net Metadata Guide
Architecture and Place
On the right hand side of the ‘add item’ screen there is a drop down menu for ‘collections’ – each
item can only belong to one collection. Set this to ‘Architecture and Place’.
Dublin Core Metadata
The table below defines the DC fields and their usage for the Architecture and Place project. Please
note that not all fields are required for this project and so will remain unpopulated. This may not
hold true for future projects.
Those fields highlighted must have content.
Title
Description
Creator
Contributor
Date
A name given to a resource.
First word and proper nouns capitalised only.
Take from description where appropriate. For
letters entitle item as "Letter from XXX to YYY,
date". Do not use full stop.
An account of the resource.
Full text description of contents and context of
resource. Use full stop at the end of sentences.
An entity primarily responsible for making the
resource.
Use for authors, artists, architects, draftspeople,
principle illustrators and so on.
Format for personal names is Last Name, First
Name - LC Names may include dates in brackets
following first name and other disambiguation
information.
If author unknown, use ‘Unknown’.
[LC Names is the entity authority assigned to this
field]
An entity responsible for making contributions to
the resource.
Use for editors, foreword writers, contributory
illustrators and so on. Format for personal
names is Last Name, First Name - LC Names may
include dates in brackets following first name
and other disambiguation information.
[LC Names is the entity authority assigned to this
field]
A point or period of time associated with an
event in the lifecycle of the resource.
In this case we are capturing the year of original
creation of the item. Where date is unknown use
‘n.d.’
�Publisher
Subject
Rights
Identifier
[Date of digitisation will be derived from
collection creation date unless otherwise noted].
An entity responsible for making the resource
available.
For digitised material that was previously
published use the original publisher if known; if
unknown, use s.n.
For digitised material that we believe to have
been unpublished, leave field blank as we cannot
be 100% certain that item was unpublished.
For born digital material being made available to
the public for the first time the publisher is
'Conway Hall Ethical Society'.
The topic of the resource.
LC Subject Headings is an assigned controlled
vocabulary for this field. Use high level
description in this field. See also Tagging below.
Information about rights held in and over the
resource.
The rights statements used for this project
include:
Public Domain - see item #2, South Place Chapel
Postcard, as an example.
Creative Commons licences used for our Society
derived material - currently for texts and audio
we are using a BY-NC-ND licence (attribution,
noncommercial and non-derivative use allowed)
see item #9 Souvenirs of South Place Ethical
Society as an example. For images, it will be a
BY-NC-SA licence (attribution, noncommercial
and derivative use allowed under similar licence
for derivative works).
Orphan works - licence will be according to that
imposed by the IPO. As of the 16/8/16 we have
no examples of these.
Copyright - see item #39 for an example. Use
copyright symbol, names of copyright holders
and include statement 'Digitised with their kind
permission.'
For rights statements that include links be sure
to add and edit these in the HTML view.
An unambiguous reference to the resource within
a given context.
For archival items give the archival finding aid
reference for the item, e.g. SPES/6/4/17 or
OP31A.
For library items give the dewey number and in a
seperate identifier field the accession number.
Born digital items are assigned a number from a
running sequence for each project kept in an
Excel spreadsheet.
�Format
Type
Language
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions
of the resource.
Use to describe the format of the digitised item.
The MIME type to use can be found from this list
based on the file/s extension. E.g. image/jpeg
for files with the extension .jpg. Please note, the
most common formats (jpg, pdf, mp3) have been
added as a controlled vocabulary for this field.
Original format description is captured in the
Item Type Metadata tab.
The nature or genre of the resource.
Match type to ‘Item Type Metadata’ tab type
where possible. If an image, use two type fields,
image and still image. For any video, do the
same, image and moving image.
A language of the resource.
Only required for items that are text based or
audio based. The controlled vocabulary used for
this field is the MARC List for Languages.
Fields not used
There are 3 fields that are restricted from use for this project.
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the
spatial applicability of the resource, or the
jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant.
Relation
A related resource.
Source
The resource from which the described resource
is derived.
It is thought that the time taken to create and assign terms for the field 'Coverage' in this instance
would not be worthwhile since it is unlikely that the terms created here would be used elsewhere in
future collections.
Coverage
Both ‘Relation’ and ‘Source’ are consistently misapplied in digitisation projects and there seems to
be no best practice in their use. As they were unlikely to be used for the Architecture and Place
project, given its content, we chose to not to use them at this time.
Item Type Metadata
The ‘Item Type Metadata’ tab is similar to, but expands on, the content in the DC field ‘type.’ There
are currently 16 types from which one must be chosen for each item. The most common ones that
will be used for this project are ‘Text’ and ‘Still Image.’
•
Text has 2 elements:
o Text – Any textual data included in the document
At this point we are not including a transcription of the text here. Where the
file added to the record is a PDF, there is no need as the PDF will include
OCR.
o Original Format - The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and
additional data
�•
Formats used so far are: Book, Pamphlet, Ephemera (for letters).
Still Image has 2 elements also:
o Original Format - The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and
additional data
Formats used so far are: Photo, Paper.
o Physical Dimensions - The actual physical size of the original image
This element is unused as not all the items in this project have this
information readily available. It is possible this may change in the future.
Tagging
Tags in Omeka.net can be added through the Tags tab when creating an item. These can be used for
more granular description of topics covered or touched on by the item. Look at the tag menu at the
left hand side of the screen to see what tags have already been created to ensure consistency when
tagging.
For both the DC Subject field and the Tagging tab do not embark on filling these with content until
you've been brought up to speed by Olwen and Sam.
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Digitisation Working Documents and Reports
Description
An account of the resource
A collection of documents created during the planning, implementation and evaluation stages of digitisation projects of the Humanist Library and Archives, Conway Hall.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Humanist Library and Archives
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2017
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Conway Hall Ethical Society
Subject
The topic of the resource
Digitization
Language
A language of the resource
English
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Conway Hall digital collections metadata guide
Description
An account of the resource
A guide to creating Dublin Core metadata for digital collections created on Omeka.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Callaghan, Samantha
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2016
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Conway Hall Ethical Society
Subject
The topic of the resource
Digitization
Dublin Core
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
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Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
BD-DD0001
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
application/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Language
A language of the resource
English
Administration
Conway Hall Ethical Society
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Title
A name given to the resource
Architecture and Place
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Humanist Library and Archives
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2016
Description
An account of the resource
A collection of digitised items from the Humanist Library and Archives telling the story of buildings and spaces occupied by the Conway Hall Ethical Society (formerly the South Place Ethical Society). Also includes several born digital items.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Conway Hall Ethical Society
Subject
The topic of the resource
Architecture
Conway Hall (London, England)
South Place Chapel, Finsbury
Mansford, Frederick Herbert (1871-1946)
Language
A language of the resource
English
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Cutaway view of model of the main hall of Conway Hall
Description
An account of the resource
Cutaway view of a model of the main hall of Conway Hall.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Feilden, Fergus
Fowles, Edmund
Ross, John
Thomas, Alex
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Conway Hall Ethical Society
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2004
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
© Fergus Feildon, Edmund Fowles, John Ross and Alex Thomas. Digitised with their kind permission.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpeg
Subject
The topic of the resource
Conway Hall (London, England)
Architectural models
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Still Image
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
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INTERVIEW SUMMARY FORM
Interviewee: Gordon Honey
Interviewer: Rosa Vilbr
Date of Recording: 9/5/2016
Length of Recording: 02:04:41
Time Code
0:00:00
Summary
Date of birth16.02.1926. Was born in Bolton, Lancashire. Spent a few
years there as a child, but spent most of his childhood in Manchester,
in Higher Crumpsall.
He had an older brother who was born out of wedlock in 1922. “I had
a mother who was quite special. She was a wonderful mother, I don’t
think she was such a good wife but she was a wonderful mother and
that’s the best thing for a child”. His mother refused to marry his
brother’s father, who had fought in the First World War with his
uncles. She also refused to “get rid of it” (the baby).
After his brother was born his mother travelled steerage to America
to join her older sister. While she was there she met his father,
Ernest Honey, who was American. When she was pregnant with
Gordon she came back to Bolton to nurse her father. Gordon’s father
continued to send money until 1934, although his mother had made
no attempt to return to America. She never went back. His father
never came to England.
0:04:27
His mother lived off the money his father sent until that stopped in
1934. His father was a mining engineer. After 1934 his mother was
forced to go out to work.
She sold ‘Dolly Blues’ which were made by Ricketts Blue which made
your washing whiter. His mother used to go door to door selling them
for a penny each on commission. His mother was a wonderful
mother, with a wonderful sense of humour.
His brother died in 1932, and she then went into Spiritualism. In 1939
they moved to Morecambe, where they spent the war years.
07:17:00
Interest in music stemmed from school: “I had a pretty voice at
school”.
He left school at 13 because when they moved to Morecambe his
�mother thought he may as well get a job a year early. He worked as
an errand boy and did different jobs.
His mother during the war got very much into Spiritualism: reading
palms, tea leaves. As he had a good singing voice his mother would
send him under the stairs. She said “when I cough my dear I want
you to sing Ave Maria”. “The distance of this child’s voice coming
from under the stairs enhanced her spiritualist activities.” His mother
met a woman called Martha who was a medium and, unlike his
mother, could go into trances. They joined forces. During the war
many people needed reassurance and his mother would make them
feel better. Martha told his mother that Ave Maria was not a good
song, that Danny Boy would be better “because the Protestant spirit
connections in heaven had objected to the Catholic Ave Maria”. By
then he was working on Heysham Docks and his friends used to
come and sit on the top of the stairs and laugh at what was going on.
His mother sincerely believed in Spiritualism, influenced by having
lost a child. She used to set a place at the table for his brother long
after he had died.
0:13:30
He joined the army in 1944 at 18 but because he had had rheumatic
fever he only did the training (in Ireland) and was stationed in Leeds.
After the war his mother decided they would go back to America to
stay with his aunt and so they travelled to London: although there
were no ships available for civilian travel after the war so they had to
wait.
0:14:35
He got a job at the London College of Music in Great Marlborough
Street later run by Dr Lloyd Webber. He got a job as an office boy
and had free singing lessons there. Then he got a scholarship from
London County Council to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama,
then in John Carpenter Street.
He was living in the YMCA in Tottenham Court Road. There was a
music publisher living there, and he recommended a job at Schotts,
the music publishers. Next door he noticed the London College of
Music and wondered if they give singing lessons. He was sent in to
speak to the director, Dr Bromley Derry, a “very eccentric chap”. He
asked what he could sing and he said Ave Maria, and asked what
version? Gordon said “oh, is there more than one?” which made
Derry smile. Dr Derry offered him a job as an office boy, to write
certificates and make tea, so he never made it to Schotts. Later he
would go back to the London College of Music to teach. He won a
bursary, which paid for his singing lessons.
0:20:30
He had a natural singing voice. That’s quite a controversial subject!
Singing is one of the most difficult things to teach. Everyone can sing
and to put over a song you don’t have to have a fantastic voice.
Anecdote about an actor, Rex Harrison, singing a song by speaking
to the music, which brings a tear to his eye.
0:22:00
He got a British Council scholarship to study in Germany which is
where he learnt German Leider which he performed at Conway Hall.
�He studied there with a famous baritone and coach called Gerhard
Hüsch.
0:22:50
Got basic training at London College of Music. He learnt from a
teacher who was in the BBC chorus and learnt many English songs.
That was a good grounding for his singing. He learnt Vaughn
Williams, early English songs, George Butterworth.
0:24:08
He later met Vaughn Williams. When he came back from Germany
he did a lot of broadcasting, live recitals at 9 am. He chose to do a
song by Vaughn Williams so he wrote to him to ask if he would hear
the songs and give him some idea of the tempo. He said yes, asked
him to bring a pianist to play as he was too old to play. Vaughn
Williams asked him to recite the poem before he sang the song,
which flabbergasted him: singers are not necessarily good actors! He
got through it. Vaughn Williams’ tempo was very slow, Gordon had it
timed at the BBC for 3 minutes, but at that pace it would have taken
6. When you’re young you sing quicker!
0:27:27
He didn’t have particular ambitions. He had an agent, who got him
into the open air theatre in 1956 to sing the Shakespeare songs. He
got the job as a singer in As You Like It. There were famous actors
like Robert Thorndike on the stage. He realized when he heard the
speech all the world’s a stage that he was in a famous play: “What
would my mother and my auntie Ethel in Bolton say?” It was
wonderful training listening to the actors, now he loves poetry more
than singing.
0:30:40
He wrote, later on, a one man show: Gilbert and Sullivan a la carte
and toured the world with it. He went on the QEII with it. It was
extremely popular. In 1970 he toured South Africa with the Cape
Performing Arts Board.
0:31:55
He was a full time student at the Guildhall. He had a grant as well as
a scholarship from the LCC. His first teacher was nothing special but
later on he had Walter Gruda, a Jewish German refugee, who ran a
Lieder class. There was a famous Russian singer Oda Slobodskaya,
at the Guildhall but everyone wanted to learn German songs instead,
even though it was right after the war, Schubert and Schumann etc.
He continued lessons privately with Gruda afterwards.
He wrote to Peter Pears (tenor who worked with Benjamin Britten) to
ask advice for who he should study with in Germany. Peter Pears
recommended Gerhard Hüsch. Hüsch knew a lot about vocal technique
and gave him advice about the human voice and the value of related
vowel sounds and how they change as the notes you are singing get
higher. The vowel sounds need to change as you sing or you might
break your voice. He had difficulty with his high notes before this
training. Sings some examples of vowel sounds changing.
He didn’t know Peter Pears personally but he’d been to hear him sing
and there was something about him performing with Britten. He had
listened to him and so wrote to him and met him for half an hour. Many
years later he spoke to Peter Pears and said he was lucky to live with
Britten as you’d have lots of rehearsal time. But Pears told him he was
�lucky if he got 20 minutes! The reason was Britten adored jazz and he
thought you could over rehearse. Talks about importance of leaving
something to chance. Being trained you lose the ability to sing jazz – he
tried to rehearse an Ella Fitzgerald song but it was all wrong. As a
trained signer you lose something natural jazz singers have.
0:47:00
Going out in London as a young person: when he worked at the
London College of Music as an office boy he had free tickets to go to
the Wigmore Hall so he went 3 or 4 times a week for concerts.
Vaughn Williams was often in the audience listening and he used to
see him there. He heard all the great musicians. Talks about how
badly paid the teachers at the music schools were and how the law
was changed to put them onto the teaching pay scale. Even Oda
Slobodskaya was living in poverty.
Was enthusiastic about all kinds of music. Before he was trained he
would “croon”, and has always had feeling for light music. When he
lived in Morecambe there were talent competitions in the Winter
Gardens. Sings ‘There’s a Cowboy Riding in the Sky’. He sang that in
a vocal competition and won the talent show – he thinks because he
was more local than the competition!
If you have a natural singing voice you just copy what other people
do.
0:55:05
How came to perform at Conway Hall: probably through his agent.
He thinks Conway Hall used to contact artists to see if you would
appear. Mostly they didn’t have singers, they only had quartets. One
singer per season, according to the program he has. He was
fortunate enough to be asked to do that. “The money wasn’t that
great”. Can’t remember how much he was paid.
Talks about the other performers at the April Fools Concert he
performed at – all sorts of well-known people on the list. John Amis,
who had a television show “a very flamboyant gentleman”.
0:58:37
First performance at CH was the song cycle, Schubert with Paul
Hamburger. Did about 3 concerts at CH. First was in 1964. Was 28
(RV wrongly says 32) at the performance. Says male voices develop
later, compared to female voices which mature younger.
Anecdote about difficulty of teaching singers without natural talent.
You get this attitude with singing rather than other instruments “its
such a natural part of you and everyone can do it to a point”.
Details of the night: “I was terribly, terribly nervous. I always suffered
dreadfully with nerves.” That’s why he was happy to do other things
than perform and take on other work.
Talks about how he was given translation work when he came back
from Germany, first accompanying Romanian musicians to hear
Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten perform. Because of his personal
connection he was able to arrange for the Romanians to run into
Britten ‘by accident’.
�There’s no rational explanation about why some performers are
nervous and others are not. Singers have to worry about getting
colds which can make it impossible to sing. “If someone breathes
over you you run a mile … so we are a difficult lot”.
1:10:54
Had come to 1 or 2 of the CH concerts before but not a lot. CH was a
wonderful experience. First impression: thank goodness it’s not the
Albert Hall because it’s a much smaller hall to work in. How nice to
be getting up to sing and to be paid for it – but that increases your
nerves “because you are only as good as your last concert”.
As a classical singer you have to stand stock still: “if you’re a male
singer you are stuck with only one or two positions, you can’t put your
hands in your pockets”. Women can make more movements but men
must stay still.
1:14:34
Has no memories of the architecture/building because he was
nervous before the concert. Singers are obsessed with themselves
and their performance “it’s a question of me, me, me”. Singers are
neurotic, anxious about their voices.
The hall acoustics were very good. Friends who came to hear him
said it had gone alright.
It depends what you are singing – he was most nervous during
‘auditorio’ [phonetic] when you had to sit on display the whole time.
The concert at CH was different because he was performing alone
and could get into the song cycle.
The song cycle lasts about an hour. Because you are continually
singing its better than sitting and waiting on view. Talks about how
difficult he thinks dancing is – tougher than being a singer, although
classical singing is not easy.
1:19:32
At the point he performed at CH his voice still had to develop
although he had already had his training in Germany (1958-1960).
He gave Leider recitals on the BBC quite a lot, which is why he was
invited to CH.
The other quartets and ensembles on the bill were very distinguished
and he was very honored to be asked to sing with these musicians:
Melos ensemble, Amici string quartet and the London string quartet.
“It didn’t pay the rent for a year like a pop singer, nonetheless I didn’t
mind fitting in, doing other jobs”. Anecdote about one of his
translation jobs where he was asked to use technical German which
he did not know – he only had conversational German.
1:24:25
He always arrived at least an hour before a concert because he was
neurotic about central heating. He would arrive with a set of keys to
turn the radiators off. “and while the audience would be feeling a bit
chilly, Mr Honey’s voice would be feeling very comfortable because
the heating wouldn’t make him sing out of tune, because an
overheated place is fatal for a singer”. But he didn’t have to use his
�keys at CH because the temperature was already good.
There was an artists’ room to change in. It wasn’t evening dress or
tuxedo. You wore a suit or dark clothes.
1:26:32
The audiences were always very good at CH. “There was a lot of
polite clapping. You didn’t get cheered on unless you were a famous
carouser or something.” There was always a good crowd in so you
didn’t just sing to half a dozen people. Sometimes if you booked
Wigmore Hall you’d sing to 20 people. CH had their own subscribers
and they circulated to their own audiences. However, not all those
who liked quartets would like singers, but perhaps it was a different
audience. CH probably advertised in musical magazines and then
you’d hopefully have friends who would come and support you.
He didn’t know anyone who worked at CH. He had an agent and they
may have been in touch with him.
The audience were distinguished: they were interested in the arts.
Anecdote about Kenneth Williams being outside one of his concerts
at Wigmore Hall. He was a distinguished audience member!
1:32:06
The other concerts he did were the April Fools Concert and he did
Winterreise at CH. But he only sang 2 or 3 times at CH. “but CH
concerts always had a great prestige because they only employed
the very finest of artistes! I have to say that don’t I?” [laughs] The
quartets were world famous, he wasn’t.
Most audience members would pay on the door. Does not know if CH
had subscription concerts. The price on the program says 3 shillings.
Very low compared to today’s prices. People didn’t earn very much
so it was all relative. He remembers paying £1.25 a week for a room.
When he came to London in the forties there were lots of old ladies
with large houses in Kensington and Chelsea who let rooms.
1:38:16
How did he prepare for a concert? He was always in training, like an
athlete. “That’s why a singer’s life is absolute hell” - because if you
catch a cold you can’t perform. He didn’t do a lot of warming up.
Some musicians never practice at all.
Important to keep fit. Not as physically taxing to sing as to dance or
play sport. But you did feel tired after a concert “when you sing you
sing with your whole body, you are giving everything you’ve got.”
Would not go out with friends after a concert. Was always an early to
bedder and early riser. Loves early mornings and doesn’t like night
life.
Singers have to be careful about their diets. In the 1970s he had
health problems and he went to a doctor who recommended he go
vegetarian and he became fit again.
1:44:00
Favourite memory of Conway Hall? Just of being invited to be with
these well-known people, it was an honour.
�1:44:45
He wrote his Gilbert and Sullivan show in the late 1960s. He still
adores Gilbert and Sullivan.
He performed at a summer season at Cromer with Ronnie Corbett in
the 1950s. It was Ronnie Corbett’s first job. He was always very easy
to get along with. He had a marvelous personality.
1:48:31
Break in recording
How did the lighter music he did compare to performing at CH? “It
was easier in a sense.” Although he was still nervous but at Cromer
he had to introduce people and he found it terrifying. Children should
be taught drama so they don’t get nervous speaking in public.
He sang a song called ‘Seafever’ at Cromer and Ronnie Corbett used
to send him a Christmas card with the lyrics in. Ronnie Corbett was
really good at remembering what other people did and got on with
everyone, which he thinks is the secret to his success.
He was never nervous when doing comedy. He did a summer
season in Blackpool with Thora Hird and Freddie Hinton which he did
and he wasn’t nervous, it was a speaking role. He was glad to do it
because it was well paid. It was only where serious recitals are
concerned that he’d get really nervous. It’s not the same tension as
standing alone in front of a piano and singing for an hour.
Asked if he was more comfortable performing back in Lancashire:
depends what the concert is and who was in the audience, would be
more nervous performing in front of the Queen then Mr and Mrs
Smith in Blackpool.
1:54:04
Where did his confidence come from? When his mother was selling
Dolly Blues she would take him out of school and put him in a brand
new white shirt. She’d get him to twirl in front of the customers to
show how white the Dolly Blues made his shirt. “My mother gave me
confidence if anything … and you also get your humour”.
His mother used to say it was important just to do my best and that
gave him confidence. That will leave any child feeling happier,
knowing he’s made his parents happy. He never had pressure to
succeed.
He loves speaking to strangers: “I was very much in love with the
ordinary way of life, I was never blinkered to step onto a stage, it
never worried me”. He was happy when he was working elsewhere
and didn’t have to perform.
1:57:53
His mother was proud of his singing.She died in the early sixties so
she didn’t see him do a lot of things.
His Auntie Ethel and Uncle Howard in Bolton would listen to his
Lieder recitals on the BBC and his aunt would call and say “Why
can’t you sing something in English with a nice melody to it” which
would make him smile.
�“Being healthy and having a sense of humour are the most important
things in life”.
2:01:06
Has not been back to Conway Hall much over the years. Not free on
Sundays. Some of his friends at Charterhouse come regularly to
listen to the trios. He only lives 3 bus stops away.
What he thinks of the hall more recently: has just been out and seen
the size of the balcony and its much bigger than he thought it was.
Especially upstairs, there are a lot of seats. “Of course if I had known
that I would have been 4 times as nervous!”
2:02:49
If he could change CH in some way: he would like a Gilbert and
Sullivan concert. They are still very popular.
“That’s how I would like to change Conway Hall, but don’t tell too
many people, Gilbert and Sullivan: they are still wonderful, wonderful
songs”.
Sings a snatch of a song.
�
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