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Digital photos for National Register submissions: An interview with Michael Southern, North Carolina’s Senior Architectural Historian, on making the move to digital

By Lee Wright | Published: March 18, 2009

Today was the deadline to comment on the National Park Service’s draft digital photo policy.  An earlier article on state leadership on digital photo policies cited North Carolina’s policy of requiring digital photos.
I recently asked Peter Sandbeck, who administers North Carolina’s Historic Preservation Office and serves as the Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer, how they [...]

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Digital photo policies for state historic preservation nominations

By Lee Wright | Published: March 11, 2009

The recent request by the National Park Service for comments on the proposed update to the National Register photography guidelines, which omits geotagging, raises the question of the way in which states handle digital photography.
North Carolina, for example, requires the use of digital photography:

North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office
Digital Photography for Historic Property Surveys and [...]

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