The Pararchive Project

23rd September 2015

Oregon Story Board

Through our accelerator program and coworking space, and with the help of a group of amazing mentors from diverse backgrounds, Oregon Story Board is uniquely positioned to help digital storytelling companies grow their businesses in Oregon. oregonstoryboard.org

8th September 2015

Charles Ward-The Last Recipient of the Victoria Cross Awarded by Queen Victoria.

Simon Popple shares his fascinating story of Charles Ward, the last person to be awarded the Victoria Cross by Queen Victoria.

1st September 2015

The Family Archive Project: Exploring Family Identities, Memories and Stories Through Curated Personal Possessions

Take a look at this fascinating AHRC-funded project that is exploring the past, present and future of the “family archive” by looking into what sort of things families preserve and collect from their pasts and what such things say about them.

27th August 2015

The Internet Is Failing The Website Preservation Test

“If the internet is at its core a system of record, then it is failing to complete that mission”, observes Ron Miller in his interesting piece on the issues we face around content preservation on the Internet.

26th August 2015

Digitising Newspaper Collections-Best Practice Tips

Gemma Cattell shares best practice advice to help archivists and collection managers plan and undertake the digitisation of their newspaper collections.

9th August 2015

Jam Preserves

We hate it when projects we love go dark, so we’re taking a different approach and archiving Jam the best possible way we can manage. We want to preserve your jams, and we want to celebrate all 2+ million songs and the people who curated them between 2011–2015. We know this is no replacement for…

7th August 2015

The 2015 Digital Design Weekend in London/26th-27th September

The Yarn Community platform will be featured at the Digital Design Weekend (26th – 27th September 2015) at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. More details to follow as and when they become available.

7th August 2015

Yarn Community Featured in the Guardian

Claire Shaw of the Guardian interviewed Simon Popple and other researchers leading fascinating projects that draw on “big data” to push boundaries in research. Read more here.

28th July 2015

Thousands of Exhausted Things, or why we dedicated MoMA’s collection data to the public domain

“…data can be and should be terrain for exploration, forum for interrogation, and substrate for creation. There is prose and poetry and performance to be made from these rows and columns.” More at… medium.com/digital-moma/thousands-of-exhausted-things-or-why-we-dedicated-moma-s-collection-data-to-the-public-domain-7e0a7165e99

12th July 2015

Statens Museum for Kunst

Statens Museum for Kunst is Denmark’s national gallery and main museum of art. The collections span 700 years of art history, presenting works from Denmark, Europe, and the rest of the world. A large share of these collections is in the public domain. They are part of our shared cultural heritage and have been around…