2. Why?
• Gap between potential and use of the
archive
– One time visits (museum experience)
– Hard to find/navigate web interfaces
• How could these interactions be extended
towards the visibility and use of the
archive?
3. What? Archive Ecologies
• Engage the community in realm of everyday
life
– Communities, special interest groups
• Take a network, system approach
– Internet
– Institutions, companies, individuals
– Many smaller projects linked under one network
– Networked localities/multi-local
5. Two pronged approach
1. Beeld en Geluid
– Increase accessibility
– Usage, interpretation, content gen. in context
of daily life
2. Address social issue
– Self sustaining
– Community oriented
11. Insights
- New PSS
- Focus on communities
- various roles/membership/participation
- Tailor solutions
- Couple goals empowerment
- i.e. ICT education w/ community archiving
- i.e. Social network w/ everyday issues for 50+
group
16. Youth media education + archive remix
• Target education institutions (local ) & OCW
(web)
• Educate:
– Documentary/film techniques (fun)
– Critical thinking about media
• Remix a certain % of BenG material:
– E.g., free recording studio in Rotterdam. Animal
sounds from their archive must be used.
– Clip providence
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20. “The care of the records of contemporary
civilization is a task so vast that…many
records will be preserved by amateurs or
they will not be preserved at all…let there
be included among our objectives not only…a
car in every garage but a scholar in every
schoolhouse and a man of letters in every
town. Towards this end technology offers new
devices and points the way.”
- Robert C. Binkley, Spring 1935
23. Citizen Archivists
• Benefits for participants:
– Learn ICT literacy
– Engagement, local meet-ups with like-minded
– $$(?)
• Different types of subscription/roles
– Interest based
– Distributed computing, i.e. lend processing
power (see SETI@home)
– Fixed (minimum) commitment
26. AR?
• Link real-life, ecosystems in “reality” & in an
accessible, online manner (multi-local, multi-
stakeholder).
• Focus on community/interest groups for
added value
– Individual contributes online
– Community building offline
– Multiple forms of participation/engagement
• Individual level
• Multi-stakeholder: companies, organizations, etc.
27. AR?
• Increase accessibility
• Leapfrog off of existing (analogous,
successful) infrastructures
– Proven citizen science web infra’s
– Organizational/collaboration structures
• API for developers
– Open up content for usage/remixing
– Develop mobile forms of citizen archiving
Hinweis der Redaktion
I will explore how to redefine, present and connect the archive to the realm of the everyday experience from a bottom-up and grassroots perspective connected to the larger theoretical perspective we have already developed.
I am concerned with durable ways of dealing with the archive, and as such, will explore how to bring new purpose to Beeld en Geluid (BenG) through the creation of self-propagating and maintaining archive ecologies; connecting the archive to different special interest groups and existing social constructs, i.e. old people in an old person home, lending the interactions resilience, visibility and longevity.
The goal will to develop the domain of archive ecologies, possible approaches towards their successful creation and examples of potential archive collaborations/extensions into daily life (3) that illustrate the kind of online + offline collaborations to create a new archive.
Smallbean, Citizen Archivist Project - Kwala, Tanzinia
This project tackles education and community archiving all at once. Solar-powered A/V labs are setup using donated and refurbished equipment. These labs are then used to educate citizens in computer and critical technology skills in a continual community archival project. Citizens learn skills for future jobs and for the economic development of their community while documenting the life and stories within their communities, on one hand preserving their heritage while taking steps towards the future.
Southwark Circle is a membership organisation whose members stay sorted, connected and lead the lives they want to lead. It does this by introducing members to each other and local, reliable Neighbourhood Helpers. We are proud to receive support from Southwark Council to serve the people of Southwark.
Southwark Circle was co-designed with people over 50 years old as well as their families and frontline workers, and was developed by Participle Ltd, and its partners at Southwark Council, Sky and the Department for Work and Pensions.
Southwark Circle is a social enterprise registered in the UK as a Community Interest Company (CIC)
Revolutionize social care
Social network
Meetups
Recommendations for tradespeople
Designed to be self sustaining
Nostalgia for physical places
Analogous rituals
Sexy librarian
Urban espresso bar + video installation (rotating)
Record shop
Reading room/library
MIXED FUNCTIONS
Ecosystem of functions
Mixed functions
“The care of the records of contemporary civilization is a task so vast that neither the personnel nor the funds of our institutions of research can shoulder the burden. Many records will be preserved by amateurs or they will not be preserved at all…let there be included among our objectives not only a bathroom in every home and a car in every garage but a scholar in every schoolhouse and a man of letters in every town. Towards this end technology offers new devices and points the way.” (Robert C. Binkley, Spring 1935)
-Widespread phenomoneon
-Leapfrog off of those ideas/infrastructures/ecosystems
Archivists@home
- provide content based referencing
meta-data
Search patterns for machine learning
V2_
Infrastructure
Mobile archiving
