LivingArchives
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[edit] What are Living Archives?
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Collections of text, maps, audio, video and other media generated by our projects and research that are catalogued and made useful and accessible in the long term, both to those who originate the material and to others.
Living archives are of public interest, providing material or documenting events and processes that are otherwise invisible to official sources of historical and archival authority. They are also subjective, specific to the practices of each group, individual and project which produces and catalogues the material in the archive.
Keywords: collaborative mapping, active archives, archival sharing & exchange, living memory, public domain, public information infrastructures, cultural economies, free software, human geography.
[edit] Living Archives Workshops
By sharing simple technical standards and techniques, developing technologies, tools and practices in a collaborative way, it becomes possible to turn a collection of idiosyncratic active archives into a public information infrastructure.
To this end, a series of workshops have been organised:
- Workshop 1: Towards Digital Public Infrastructure For Knowledge Representation
- Beursschouwburg, Brussels, 27th & 28th November 2005
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- Workshop 2: Designing The Living Archive
- Workshop 3: Building the Living Archive
[edit] Some discussion points:
Access , Interchange , Annotation and re-annotation , Provocation , Sustainability , Legal aspects .
