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Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share  some of the pictures in the HEIR project digital   image archive with you today. HEIR stands for  the Historic Environment Image Resource, it is   maintained by the School of Archaeology Archive  at the University of Oxford. The 33,000-plus   images in HEIR consist primarily of pictures  scanned from technologically obsolete media   in the teaching collections from multiple parts of  the university, plus privately amassed collections   from archaeologists, classicists, historians,  and others. A small number of modern images   re-photographing older views in HEIR  are also a feature of the collection.   Archaeological sites, aerial photographs,  landscapes, buildings, artefacts, artworks,   plants, activities, and ethnographic images that  span the time period from 1860 to the present day   are all represented. This diverse collection  is of use to academics, field archaeologists,   and anyone with an interest in the past. The  pictures I'll be using here, though mostly   from the School of Archaeology, also come from  other departments, specifically the Ashmolean   Museum the Department of the History of Art, the  Geography and Plant Science collections of the   Radcliffe science library, which is part of the  Bodleian system, and Harris Manchester College.   Getting the commercial out of the way, funding  for HEIR has come from the Reva and David Logan   Foundation, the Frankopan Foundation, other  private donors, and the University of Oxford. Floor space and storage space have an economic  value that is easily calculated relative to cost   per square meter. The value of images stored  in technologically obsolete formats is far   more difficult to price, particularly when the  pictures have been unseen for 70 years or more.   After an initial brief review of the  material turned up amazing pictures,   the department supported a funding request to  preserve some of the collection through scanning.   Once scanning began, the next challenge  was to determine the relevance, if any,   the pictures had to cutting-edge 21st  century archaeology and heritage work,   or anything else. That's the story I'll be  telling today. I'll provide some examples of   ways that our once-lost images have relevance  to the contemporary world. When we heard the   terrible news reports of the fire at Notre Dame  cathedral in 2019, one of our first thoughts   was to post a picture of the cathedral on social  media and discuss the loss. In searching through   our set of cathedral pictures we noticed this  one from the department of the history of art.   It stood out from the others as the spire that  had so tragically burned down was missing. How,   we wondered, could that be? We suddenly realised  that this was the oldest image in our collection,   having been taken no later than 1860. The  picture shows a view of the cathedral as it   looked between 1786, when the failing early  original 13th-century spire was removed,   and its replacement with the design created by  the architect Eugene Viollette-le-Duc during   the restoration of the cathedral between  1857 and 1864. When posted on social media,   this unique picture rapidly became one of our...