Media archives

Themes

• Metadata, taxonomies, tagging, folksonomy [1]
• Licensing, copyright issues
• Transclusion, contextualisation, discourse analysis, clustering [2]
• Visualisation, interfaces [3] [4]
• File formats, conversion
• Physical storage media, preservation [5]

Events

• Open Archives, IIM Prague, November 2007, http://www.iim.cz/?id=25
• New Media. Variety of Perspectives. WEB ARCHIVES, DATABASES AND ART DISTRIBUTION PROJECTS, Multiplace Brno, April 2008, http://multiplace.org/2008/?id=563&c=15
• Doc-Fest Jihlava, October 2008
• Linz, since 2005, http://media.lbg.ac.at/en/veranstaltungen_overview.php?iMenuID=3

Media art (living) archives in CEE

• Konvergence.info, http://konvergence.info
• Karass Suite, http://karasssuite.net/
• Artyčok
• Artlist, database of contemporary art in CZ, http://artlist.cz
• I-datum, Internet database of contemporary Czech art, http://vvp.avu.cz/en/idatum/search
• Lemurie
• Institute of Intermedia, http://www.iim.cz
• Archfilm, archive of Polish experimental film
• Inyfilm.sk, online archive of experimental film and video from Slovakia

Media art archives

• UbuWeb, http://www.ubu.com
• Media Art Net, http://www.mediaartnet.org/
• MediaArtHistoriesArchive, http://www.mediaarthistory.org/
• Leonardo Electronic Directory, http://www.leonardo.info/led.index.html
• Netzspannung.org, media arts and electronic culture, http://netzspannung.org/
• Media.Art.Research Bibliography, http://www.mediaartresearch.at/bibliography
• Database of Virtual Art, http://www.virtualart.at
• M.A.D., media art database, http://www.media-art-database.com/
• Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Media.Art.Research.
• 0xdb, movie database with full text search within movies, http://0xdb.org/about
• Media Art Archive Vienna
• more: Media art archives

Software

• collection management systems: OpenCollection (OSS)
• content management systems: Plone (GNU GPL)
• mind mapping and knowledge management systems: DeepaMehta (based on Nelson's research results)
• data visualisation tools: [6] [7]
• white label social networking sites: Elgg (GPL), PHPizabi

Literature

• Ted Nelson, Literary Machines, 1980s Xanadu
• Vannevar Bush, As We May Think, 1945 [8] Memex
• Ted Nelson, A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate, 1965
• Tim Berners-Lee, 1980 ENQUIRE System
• in 1903 Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss published their essay on primitive classification systems to show how they are determined by the shape of society [9]

More

• http://uo.twenteenthcentury.com/index.php/FacultyTaxonomy
• Category:Software art
• Hannah Hurtzig. Selected installation projects on the thematics and metaphor of the library and of Archives: Department for temporary memory, a media installation on the subject of the memory in art. Hamburger Kammerspiele (2000), Tulip House. INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - Dialogues on Archiving, public art installation, British Museum, King's Library, London International Festival of Theatre (2001), The Refugee: Services Rendered to Undesirables, Mobile Academy/ ErsatzStadt/ Volksbühne am Rosa- Luxemburg- Platz (2002), Tulip House. BLACK MARKET OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE AND NON-KNOWLEDGE The Hallucinated Community College of the Mobile Academy April 2005, Kunstverein in Hamburg BLACK MARKET OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE AND NON-KNOWLEDGE The Hallucinated Community College of the Mobile Academy with 100 experts Mai 2005, HEBBEL AM UFER, Berlin [10]