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The mayor of Cartagena has been saved from its progressive deterioration in print 18,000 that were deposited in your file.

For two years, through a grant for training and specialization, a documentary of the Department of Communication and Protocolose been responsible for the digitization, description and classification.

A painstaking and patient work that has managed much of the recent history of the city, images of major events, official visits, activities and take possession of officers, registered in the city during the past 35 years, and can retain easily located.

One of the main difficulties has focused on laidentificación the act or event, the date on which it occurred and the characters involved, since many of them were in unlabeled boxes and mixed with other reports.

This information has been used to bombra the computer file of the photo and has also introduced a metadata within the files themselves, to their immediate location using any standard or not, as might be the popular Google's Picasa.

The photographs belong to different photographic coverage of the mayor Luis Roch, Manuel Candela, Bernardo Garcia Pagan, Enrique Escudero, Juan Martínez Simón, Antonio Vallejo, José Antonio Alonso and Pilar Barreiro.

Some shots were located shelves and hidden units of the Town Hall prior to rehabilitation.

The scan was performed with the quality and resolution sufficient for printing in excess of formats including paper originals.

The 18,000 computer files have already been transferred to the Archives Municipalque must establish the system of inspection of these images.

The original antique paper, have been placed in boxes and envelopes, along with its negative, if they were available, and have also been brought to the Municipal Archives for deposit.

In principle there is almost no instant cast, since they are images captured at a time when there was no such profusion as at present, and in some cases are curious and unique documents.

The biggest stop of the images correspond to the mandates of Vallejo, Alonso and Barreiro.

It is recalled quehasta 2001, he began to use digital photography by the Department of Communication and Protocol, all images are captured on paper negatives and prints.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena