iBIRDSEYE NETWORK IK v.4 (October 2024)

iBIRDSEYE site  |  In 2025, an update of The IK Foundation’s organisation and digital world will begin to meet the needs of the future – we call it NETWORK IK v.4 – to be developed organically as branches in a tree at its own pace!

2024 iBirdsEye will be updated (January 2024)

In 2024, an update of the entire IK Workshop Society website will be launched, including improving and ensuring this department's high level of service for the future. The goal is to offer a digital service while inspiring those interested to use the resources the subject offers.

Develop the interdisciplinary subject (September 2023)

The IK Foundation has started a dialogue with different ”stakeholders” related to the interpretation of aerial imagery to form an interest group to develop the interdisciplinary subject and renew the thinking of the use.

The follow-up to the “future possibilities” survey (June 2023)

One of several requests from our survey “future possibilities” is to publish aerial pictures in digital exhibitions and articles. An international desire that is used in teaching and inspiration for active fieldwork. IK will develop this, starting in the autumn of 2023 and continue to build a knowledge base based on our unique material within iBirdsEye.

FUTURE POSSIBILITIES (December 2022)

IK has started listing what future possibilities exist to develop the iBirdsEye site. Interested people are welcome to contact IK with ideas by March 1, 2023.

From our reference library (August 2022)

iBIRDSEYE.org has received the book ”FOTOGRAFIHISTORIER – Fotografi och bildbruk i Sverige från 1839 till idag” where one of our classic aerial pictures is included as an important example, in this new national reference work. Over 400 pages of unique collected knowledge, highly recommended!

IK Micro.blog

Newfound aerial picture materials (March 2022)

Review of newfound aerial picture materials, which are to be added to the iBirdsEye archives in 2023.

REVIEW 2022-2023 (December 2021)

Review of non-previous catalogued picture material for publication in 2022-2023.

Adding of information (August 2021)

The addition of new information to the archive material continues, notified from new learned interpretations via users of the digital catalogue. This is a long-term work in progress. At the same time as the cataloguing of the physical archives for final storage continues. 

DONATION TO THE SWEDISH NATIONAL ARCHIVES | Aerial Pictures (March 2021)

The physical archival material – which in addition to pictures also consists of writings, maps, notes, research papers, etc. – was donated during March 2021 by The IK Foundation and Thora Ohlssons Stiftelse to The Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet). The donation has been named in Swedish ”The IK Foundation Kollektion av Flygfotografier – www.ikfoundation.org”. 

Final works (October 2020)

During this month, the final scanning work has started, which will be followed by text publishing per picture and a control of the entire picture archive.

New procedures for scanning and working (May 2020)

Establish new procedures for scanning and working with aerial images to protect people involved in different countries against the ongoing pandemic.

Scanning of modern collection (March 2020)

Scanning of The IK Foundation’s modern collection has started. This is a more experimental part of the aerial photo collection, photographed by Lars Hansen in the 1990s in connection to a scientific enterprise and research project in collaboration with The Erna & Victor Hasselblad Foundation.

200 new aerial pictures (February 2020)

Over 200 new aerial pictures were added last month, photographed during the late 1990s.

Long-term archiving of physical aerial pictures (December 2019)

Ongoing discussions between The IK Foundation and the Swedish National Archives for long-term archiving of physical aerial pictures within this authority. An interesting collaboration to manage and develop the subject.

New Collections (October 2019)

The project adds new new collections of aerial pictures to iBirdsEye for scanning and publishing in 2020.

SCANNING WORK 2019 - 2020 (August 2019)

Performing the final scanning work of the first listed aerial photo collection. Preparations for other listed parts of the iBirdsEye collection - for upcoming scans in 2020.

Review and preparation for photo scanning of the present-day section (June 2019)

Review and preparation for photo scanning of the present-day section of IK's aerial photo collection. This collection contains, among other things, infrared pictures exposed at a relatively low height in order to document details of the landscape.

Continuing review of the collections (March 2019)

Continuing review of the collections as well as high quality scanning of photographs and publication on the iBirdsEye.org

TECHNICAL AND ART WORK... (March 2019)

Technical development and art work related to the upcoming sections iLearning and iProjects.

Welcome to the inauguration of iBIRDSEYE (January 2019)
Welcome to the inauguration of iBIRDSEYE – a new division of The IK Workshop Society – a global and unique forum for all those who are interested in Natural & Cultural History from a bird’s-eye view.

iBIRDSEYE is on its way to be launched (January 2019)
This site: iBIRDSEYE is on its way to be launched 30th January 2019! You are welcome to browse around, some pages are already live ... Department by department will go live in the coming months and years - this is a scientific enterprise in progress.