Thesis Site Map
Site map for my thesis website coming soon!
Archivation
In a world where film archivists, historians, museums and information scientists research the practice of ARCHIVING, what can a media designer bring to the table?Archive for February, 2009
Search Results = Databases Databases ≠ Fun
So I’m on Archive.org’s website searching for archival materials on “airships” as subject matter for my thesis exhibition and final project when it hits me. This really IS incredibly boring—to comb through endless search results looking for the good stuff. Who wants to stare at a spreadsheet or list of search results all day long? Days actually.
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“A lot of useless files that make it hard to find the good stuff.”
Last weekend Fresh Starts published a column in the New York Times about the up and coming job of the digital archivist. The article explains the new role of the modern archivist with both digitized, born digital and analog files becoming increasingly messy and cluttered and how it’s growing increasingly harder to find that good stuff hidden away in collections.
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