Biblio-Graph
The Biblio-Graph system
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Catching Up in the Archive, de Appel Amsterdam
Catching Up in the Archive, 2022, installation views. Photography: Johannes Schwartz
Mobile Archive Unit
RFID Reading and
image capturing table
The Mobile Archive Unit (Silverfish) is made for data creation, curation, and community-sourced data aggregation. Staff, researchers, and visitors can contribute by digitizing objects.
It’s a library trolley equipped with a phone, lights and custom software that pairs the digitized object with its existing record in the database. The unit can also be used to create a digital archive from scratch, with the digitized images serving as both the source and provenance of metadata.
The Mobile Archive Unit feeds Biblio-Graph with images paired with records, which are then displayed as a network visualization. Each image acts as an entry point to the entire database: by clicking on an image, you can view related metadata, and by clicking on metadata, you can see its connections to other objects in the collection.
Archival Consciousness was initiated by artist Mariana Lanari and graphic designer Remco van Bladel to collaborate with libraries and archives in cultural institutions. We work in close collaboration with archivists to implement methods and infrastructure to turn their collections more accessible. We are interested in the long term preservation and dissemination of physical archives, in connection with the digital archive. The digital component of archives, their databases, are the starting point of our work. We are developing a shared and community oriented Knowledge Graph that acts as an interaction layer on top of the existing databases of libraries and archives to facilitate discovery, browsing, and navigation.
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Part of ACKnowledge, Art Routes from the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA), 2020, Creative Industries fund NL, Digital Culture program © 2021, Archival Consciousness is part of the MediaFutures project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s framework Horizon 2020 for research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 951962
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