Linkdump on data visualization

As I lost myself browsing for ways of visualizing the archive as a network, i got to some very interesting data visualization websites that i'd like to share. Since I don't have time to explain each one right now, i'll just dump the links so you can see for yourself!

Data visualization overview blogpost
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_best_tools_for_visualization.php

Infosthetics
http://infosthetics.com/
Subsites especially concerning the archive:
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/09/the_visible_archive.html
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/09/mapping_the_archive_30_years_of_ars_electronica.html
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/cultural_broadcasting_archive.html

Some nice examples
http://www.fidgt.com/visualize
http://audiomap.tuneglue.net/
http://www.liveplasma.com/
http://getpivot.com/

A nice set of links regarding new media archives: AktiveArchive

Response from the Archival World

Just found the website of a symposium on digital archiving organized by the Swiss Federal Archive in response to the changing methods of archiving and changing principles of archiving. The topics they organize are as follows:

1. Archival profile: professional competence in the digital age
2. What to keep: how to mirror the information society
3. E-Archiving: reorganisation of processes and business models
4. Online access: solutions and implications

If the archival profession is to successfully make the transition out of the 20th century, it will need to recognize that what gives an archives value is how it is used. In the last century, an archives may have derived status from the materials it preserved; in this century, it will derive value from the materials it provides access to–and that access will have to be online. -- from Kate @ Archives2.0

Web2.0 and archivists blogging

- Archives*Open - how archivists are thinking about Web2.0 and it's impact on their evolving profession

- ArchivesNext - Web2.0 and it's implications for archiving

- Archief2.0 (Dutch) - social network for archivists

- Records Junkie

-Tag: openarchives on delicious

Information on Digital Preservation

- Digital Preservation Europe

Online Archival Projects

- Kennisland

analog AR

As touched upon in the previous post, people have been augmenting reality way before there was this fetish for computer vision.

Here is Where: a project that rediscovers (lackluster) physical locations through historical accounts. New York Times article that describes the project.

“It’s sort of a reverse scavenger hunt,” he said. “Trying to find things that aren’t there.”

Other things to look at could be shamanism or other rituals in which people initiate this accessing of information that is not there. (Often this refers to the physical perceptible reality.) More to come.

Philosophical/Higher Level Questions + Reading List

What is:

- an archive?
- memory?
- reality?
- space?
- augmentation?

What are these things when they are mapped/layered on each other?

Some relevant literature/inspirations....

Art of Memory - Francis A. Yates (ask Kate for the pdf)

Relational Aesthetics - Nicolas Bourriaud

The Interventionists - Gregory Sholette

Library of Babel - Borges

Orality and Digitalization

Cybertherapy - a collection of papers on VR, mixed reality, interreality, ambient intelligence in health care.

Archive Links

Link to a variety of Ars Electronica archival projects.


Archive as National Memory


Augmented Reality Lab in The Hague (Check out the State of the AR archive)