My final project
I’d love to hear feedback from you guys on this. Something I might (would like to) take forward. If you want to keep in touch as I go off to Pratt next semester, you can follow me on Twitter (@marleewalters)…
Processing post: readings for Nov. 19
Ben Fino-Radin in his interviews, echoed a lot the topics I’ve been reading about in my research on digital archives. Metadata and emulation are popular. In researching for final papers in this course and others, I came across an article…
Processing post: readings for Nov. 15
I loved Tim Sherratt’s idea that “structure matters and that links can have meaning.” It reminds me of our reading and discussion on the meaning of early hyperlinks. Sherratt goes back further, to re-suggest to us that hyperlinks can carry…
Application: MoMA Film Stills Archive
The Museum of Modern Art has the largest collection of film stills in the world at over 4 million. These stills include not only publicity and promotional shots that we see on DVD covers or posters, but also production stills….
Processing post: readings for Oct. 22
The readings this week were difficult. Not in the way hardcore theorists can be difficult, but difficult in a conundrum sort of way. Our world becomes increasingly digitally-based and physical spaces and objects are often forgotten, but still needed. The…
Processing post: readings for Oct. 15
What has stuck with me from the readings on classification two weeks ago are the ideas of “a place for everything and everything in its place” and the need to classify everything, both being shattered. I have the impulse to…
Processing post: readings for Sept. 10
In following a link in the “Ask an Archivist” post (I knew I always liked Hairpin; they have an “Ask a Clean Person” column as well), I found these articles in The Atlantic on levels of organization in archives and the issues they…
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