Links
Other sites related to archives and new media
Archiving the Avant-Garde
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/about_bampfa/avantgarde.html
Documenting and Preserving Digital and Variable Media Art at the University of California, Berkeley Museum
The British Library
http://www.bl.uk
Includes many digital archiving projects including the first phase of the searchable archive of Web sites - selected for their scholarly, cultural and scientific value - developed by the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC). This archive is aimed at the broad research community and marks the first systematic attempt to create an archive of social, historic and culturally significant web-based material from the UK domain. trAce was one of the first 100 sites to be archived by UKWAC. See http://www.webarchive.org.uk
Dejavu.org
http://www.dejavu.org/
This site is devoted to the history of the web. The main attraction is a browser emulator that brings you back to any web era as defined by the browser version predominant at that time. “Get a colourful flashback (or déjà vu, as they say in France) of those happy days when the Net was all painted in Mosaic grey.” There’s also a timeline. They add a rider “The ambition for this site (right now) is to give you a feeling of nostalgia, and a general understanding of the evolution of the web. It is not to provide a comprehensive history of the web, nor an exact rendering of all old browsers.”
Electronic Literature OrganizationPreservation and Archiving Project
http://www.eliterature.org/programs/pad/
The Preservation, Archiving, and Dissemination (PAD) project seeks to identify threatened and endangered electronic literature and to maintain accessibility, encourage stability, and ensure availability of electronic works for readers, institutions, and scholars.
Electronic Literature Organization Directory
http://directory.eliterature.org/
Not an archive exactly, but an extensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. The descriptive entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that make significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements.
IniVA Digital Archive
http://www.iniva.org/archive/index
Documenting inIVA's artistic programme since 1994, the inIVA Digital Archive provides access to the work of contemporary visual artists, critics and curators from diverse cultural backgrounds. The inIVA Digital Archive contains images, texts, audio and video materials which showcase the highest quality practice and key debates around cultural diversity and internationalism in the visual arts.
The Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, it provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. You can search the Wayback machine for homepages (and sometimes more) sampled at periods in the past.
Little History of the Web
http://www.w3.org/History.html
Very early history of the World-Wide Web from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Old Version
http://www.oldversion.com/
Old versions of various programs (browsers, graphics, multimedia etc) since
2001 which may help you access older works in the trAce archive.
PANDORA - Australia's Web archive
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/index.html
The PANDORA Archive is a selective archive of Australian online publications, which was established by the National Library in 1996 and has subsequently been developed in collaboration with other Australian libraries and cultural institutions.
PANIC
http://metadata.net/newmedia/
The PANIC (Preservation webservices Architecture for Newmedia and Interactive Collections) project is one of the current research activities being undertaken by the MAENAD group at DSTC at the University of Queensland.
Variable Media Network
http://www.variablemedia.net/
The Variable Media Network proposes an unconventional new preservation strategy that has emerged from the Guggenheim's efforts to preserve its world-renowned collection of conceptual, minimalist and video art and that is supported by the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology. The aim of this affiliation is to help build a network of organizations that will develop the tools, methods and standards needed to implement this strategy.
