The Pararchive Project

  Pararchive was recently invited to take part in the Festival of Ideas in Rusholme, Manchester. More commonly known as the Rusholme Festival of Ideas – which I will henceforth abbreviate as (RFoI) in this piece, the event provided an opportunity for local communities and people to map their ideas and perspectives of how they…

“In the video below, we pay homage to the visual style of five present-day legends using only footage and music found in the Shutterstock library…” We’ve been excited to see what our partners at Bokeh Yeah! might come up with when let loose inside the archives at the BBC and other collections. The video above…

“…many museums have a secret room (or two or ten) well out of the public eye. Here are a few of those, full of books, boobs, and beetles.” I wonder, will our Science Museum and National Media Museum partners have some secret rooms for us to integrate into the Pararchive app? 😉 More at Atlas Obscura…

  In an update on her Pararchive research project entitled Back to the Future: When Wearable Technology Meets Archive Content, we learnt how Michelle – a member of the MadLab Manchester Arduino Group and Founder and Director of Made With Glove Ltd – is designing fashionable heated gloves for women who suffer from the Raynaud’s…

An OpenGLAM institution champions these principles Release digital information about the artefacts (metadata) into the public domain using an appropriate legal tool such as the Creative Commons Zero Waiver. Keep digital representations of works for which copyright has expired (public domain) in the public domain by not adding new rights to them. When publishing data…

“…the big idea here is that open collections allow cultural institutions to complete their educational missions: not only showing our objects to as many people as possible, but giving people ownership of our collections and spaces by welcoming them to engage in any way they can dream up.” More at… blog.mam.org/2014/11/11/beyond-digital-open-collections-and-cultural-institutions-part-1 blog.mam.org/2014/11/18/beyond-digital-open-collections-and-cultural-institutions-part-2

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will be a gathering place to experience narrative art and the evolution of moving images – from illustration to cinema to the digital mediums of the future. The museum’s seed collection – a gift from founder George Lucas – spans a century-and-a-half and features the images and the mediums…

In considering archives and collections, we’ve generally been exploring digital simulcra of real artefacts and those that are ‘born digital’. However, some artefacts are not only intrinsically digital, but also inhabit a intersection of shapeshifting networks and adaptive interpretations. Software artefacts in particular can only be considered in relation to hardware platforms, programming languages and notably versions and iterations.…