Archipel presentation
From ActiveArchives
Deze presentatie in het Nederlands
Based on slides presented at the Archipel Meeting 16 Nov, 2011
Intro: Active Archives
Intro: Active Archives
Starting point
- Archiving as a form of reflection
- Digital material thrives in distribution and reuse
Implications (for archivist, institution, artist):
- Readiness to let go
- Openness to receive reworked material
Intro: Active Archives
Working session: Archiving starts now, Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, 2009
Intro: Active Archives
Working session: Timed Text, Constant Brussel, 2010
Intro: Active Archives
Working session: Tagging Matters, Constant Variable, Brussel 2011
Background: In the beginning was ... the link
<a href="http://info.cern.ch/NextBrowser.html"> Images of the first Web browser </a>
Background: Return to HyperText (1)
Ted Nelson: Everything is deeply intertwingled
Background: URL = API
An Open API (Application programming interface):
- URL brings existing protocols together
- You don't need permission to make a link
Bckground: Return to HyperText (2)
Background: The semantic web and the return of the REL
Semantic Web: The good parts:
- Return to the qualities of HyperText
- The document is once again central
- Self-standing, linked documents are source
Background: New protocols
- Linked data: RDF, SPARQL
PREFIX dc:<http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
PREFIX aa:<http://activearchives.org/terms/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?doc ?doctitle ?docdate ?docauthor ?o ?otitle
WHERE {
?doc <http://sarma.be/terms/person> ?o .
?doc dc:title ?doctitle.
?doc dc:date ?docdate.
?doc dc:creator ?docauthor.
?doc ?p <http://sarma.be/pages/Anthology_walk%2Btalk_Brussels/> .
OPTIONAL { ?o dc:title ?otitle }
}
ORDER BY ?doc
New ways to search:
- SPARQL as a bridge from database to links (SQL for linked data)
- Publically accessible endpoints and API's make federated search mogelijk
- Stimulates connections betwen sites, databases, institutions
What's missing:
- Editing tools to write with semantic links
Backgrond: Welcome Wiki!
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors
- Wiki means fast (the movement from reading to writing)
- Making a link is easy (use CamelCase or some extra [[punctuation]])
- New pages are made by referring to them in the flow of a text
- Wikis follow the logic of the writer, not the database.
Tagging with links:
[[Category: Composer]] [[Category: People born in in 1972]]
AA Video Wiki: System overview
AA Video Wiki is a browser
[[ embed:: http://video.constantvzw.org/vj12/Michael_Moss.ogv ]]
Don't upload, just link:
- Material is added via a URL
- Multimedia material can be altered on the fly with filters
AA Video Wiki: Writing with video
http://activearchives.org/aaa/resources/25/
AA Video Wiki: Examples of use
Pieter Geenen, Silence
AA Video Wiki: Examples of use
Mixing Bodies playlist
http://activearchives.org/aaa/tags/Body/
AA Video Wiki: Examples of use
Stare: Peter Westenberg
http://activearchives.org/aaa/resources/194/
AA Video Wiki: Examples of use
QNA / Libre Graphics Meeting
http://activearchives.org/aa/qna/Libre_Graphics_Meeting/
AA Video Wiki: Examples of use
Sarma: Oral Site
AA Video Wiki: The web as a graph
Live SVG examples: People, Works
