Summary: In 2007, Iriss undertook a digital preservation project to share - and safeguard - the migration story of the 10,000 children, referred to as ‘orphans, waifs and strays’ who emigrated to Canada between 1869 and 1939. It was first created as an exhibition at the Heatherbank Museum of Social Work in Glasgow called The Golden Bridge, and the website became an interactive tool for learning and sharing this migration story. The website has recently been given a new lick of paint. This redesign has given us a good excuse to take the lid off the work and share a behind-the-scenes look at the work that went into digitising the exhibition. We spoke to Ellen Daly and Ian Phillip from Iriss who were involved in the digitisation of the exhibition. They give us an insight into how it all came together. Music: Something Elated by Broke For Free, licensed under a Creative Commons-BY license United States (CC BY 3.0).
