[WebCultures] WebCultures Digest, Vol 13, Issue 2
Anna Perricci
anna.perricci at gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 00:58:13 CEST 2015
Hello Marcin and colleagues on the list,
Marcin, thanks for bringing up this great question.
In case you are curious to know more about the Occupy Wall Street Archives
Working Group (OWS AWG), including specifically how web archiving was part
of our activities, I co-wrote a book chapter on work we did in the OWS AWG:
http://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D80R9MGR. The seed sites we sent are available
through the Internet Archive's Archive-It global event collection on the
Occupy movement: https://archive-it.org/collections/2950.
More of the global event collections made with Archive-It are available at:
https://archive-it.org/organizations/89 and often are curated by
submissions from the general public. A currently very active collection is
the #blacklivesmatter collection: https://archive-it.org/collections/4783.
Nominations for this collection are still being accepted through this web
form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uTyINjaFgLMzizrxqGzGbS8avb5_1xJJ2ostRnhvxXo/viewform.
Columbia University Libraries (my current employer) has an established web
archiving program (
https://library.columbia.edu/bts/web_resources_collection.html), including
the Human Rights Web Archive: http://hrwa.cul.columbia.edu/ which is
partially curated by public nomination but mostly formed by curators based
at universities. Through a Mellon grant we have been building more
collaborative models for archiving web resources. These projects are very
much based within a university but I wanted to mention them since they are
on a smaller scale than projects going on via national libraries. If you
would like to know more about the collaborative models we have been
exploring for web archiving, this recent article I wrote has a brief
overview http://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D87943X5
Though it is geared to video rather than web archiving, I think WITNESS (
https://witness.org/resources/) is a great model to look to when thinking
about supporting community archiving.
Hope this helps!
Best,
Anna
<http://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D87943X5>
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> 1. Re: grassroots web archiving projects (ReindeR Rustema)
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> 3. Re: grassroots web archiving projects (Ed Summers)
> 4. Re: grassroots web archiving projects (jara rocha)
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> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 13:17:47 +0200
> From: ReindeR Rustema <reinder at rustema.nl>
> To: Marcin Wilkowski <m at wilkowski.org>
> Cc: Michael Stevenson <webcultures at listcultures.org>
> Subject: Re: [WebCultures] grassroots web archiving projects
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> > On 5 sep. 2015, at 11:42, Marcin Wilkowski <m at wilkowski.org> wrote:
> >
> > Do you know any more similar initiatives?
>
> Amsterdam Museum for the Digital City http://re-dds.nl
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> amateurs with similar goal at http://opendomein.nl
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> ReindeR
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> To: webcultures at listcultures.org
> Cc: archiveteam at archiveteam.org
> Subject: [WebCultures] The 12hr ISBN-JPEG Project: since 1994
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> The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project >>>> posted since 1994 <<<<
>
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> "A compassionate observer, { brad brace } forges a personal aesthetic in
> these
> 12hr-images infused with blank-sadness and a sense of mystery. What makes
> them both
> new and significant is the fact that he organizes its contents in
> sequences, applying
> the principles of cinematographic montage to fixed images."
>
> Immaculate Perception: to be happy in gazing: with dead will, free from
> the grip and
> greed of selfishness -- cold and ashy-grey all over, but with intoxicated
> moon-eyes... Extraordinary Rendition. Manifest Destiny. Abyssal Plain.
> Living Truth.
> Sublime Madness. Autofictional Metanarratie
>
> You begin to sense the byshadows that stretch from the awe of global
> dominance. How the intersecting systems help pull us apart, leaving
> us vague, drained, docile, soft in our inner discourse, willing to be
> shaped, to be overwhelmed -- easy retreats, half beliefs. Works of art
> are complex formal interventions within discursive traditions and their
> myriad filiations. These interventions are defined precisely by their
> incomparable capacity to trace the dynamics of historical process in
> paradoxical gestures of simultaneously prognostic and mnemonic
> temporalities.
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>
> > > > > Synopsis: The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project began December 30, 1994. A
> `round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery from { brad
> brace }. The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the
> recognizable; it suspends identity, relations and history. This
> discourse, far from determining the locus in which it speaks, is avoiding
> the ground on which it could find support. It is trying to operate a
> decentering that leaves no privilege to any center.
>
>
> The 12-hour ISBN JPEG Project
> -----------------------------
> began December 30, 1994
>
>
> Time-honoured, pointless Hypermodern Imagery... posted/mailed every 12
> hours...
> a spectral, trajective alignment for the 00`s! A continuum of minimalist
> masks
> in the face of catastrophe; conjuring up transformative metaphors for the
> everyday...
> A poetic reversibility of exclusive events: visual haiku...
>
> A post-rhetorical, continuous, apparently random sequence of
> imagery...
> genuine gritty, greyscale... corruptable, compact, collectable and
> compelling
> convergence. The vernacular voluptuousness of the grey imminence: the art
> of making
> the other disappear. Continual visual impact; an optical drumming,
> sculpted in
> duration, on the endless present of the Net.
>
> An extension of the printed ISBN-Book (0-9690745) series... critically
> unassimilable... imagery is gradually acquired, selected and re-sequenced
> over time... ineluctable, vertiginous connections. The 12hr dialtone...
>
> [ see http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/netcom/books.txt ]
>
> KEYWORDS:
>
> >> Buffered, disconnected, disjunctive, distended, de-centered,
> de-composed, dark, disembodied,
> despondent, ambiguous, augmented, ambilavent, annoying, homogeneous,
> reckless,
> spontaneous...
> >> Multi-faceted mandala, meditative, metaphysical, oblique, obsessive,
> obscure, obdurate, unfocused-attention, all-inclusive ground:
> god...
> >> Promulgated, personal, permeable, prolonged, polymorphous, provocative,
> poetic, plural, perverse, potent, prophetic, pathological, pointless,
> private, peripheral, precocious, porous, placeholders...
> >> Robust, real, redundant, resplendent, revolutionary, redeeming...
> >> Emergent, evolving, eccentric, eclectic, egregious, eternal, exciting,
> entertaining, evasive, entropic, erotic, entrancing, enduring, ergodic,
> expansive, exhaustive, encyclopedic, enlinked, enlaced, enamoured...
> >> Contemplative, congealed, contemporary...
>
>
> Every 12 hours, another!... view them, re-post `em, save `em,
> trade `em, print `em, even publish them...
>
> Here`s how:
>
> ~ Set www-links to -> http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/12hr.html
> -> http://bradbrace.net/12hr.html
> -> http://bbrace.net/12hr.html
> -> twitter, facebook, flickr, tumblr, posterous,
> delicious
>
> Look for the 12-hr-icon. Heavy traffic may require you to specify files
> more than once! Anarchie, Fetch, CuteFTP, TurboGopher...
>
> ~ Download from -> ftp.rdrop.com /pub/users/bbrace
> Download from -> ftp.eskimo.com /home/bbrace
> Download from -> hotline://artlyin.ftr.va.com.au
> Download from -> http://12hr.noemata.net/
>
> * Remember to set tenex or binary. Get 12hr.jpeg
>
> ~ E-mail -> If you only have access to email, then you can use FTPmail to
> do essentially the same thing. Send a message with a body of 'help' to
> the server address nearest you:
> *
> ftpmail at ccc.uba.ar ftpmail at cs.uow.edu.au
> ftpmail at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de ftpmail at ftp.Dartmouth.edu
> ftpmail at ieunet.ie ftpmail at src.doc.ic.ac.uk
> ftpmail at archie.inesc.pt ftpmail at ftp.sun.ac.za
> ftpmail at ftp.sunet.se ftpmail at ftp.luth.se
> ftpmail at NCTUCCCA.edu.tw ftpmail at oak.oakland.edu
> ftpmail at sunsite.unc.edu ftpmail at decwrl.dec.com
> ftpmail at census.gov
> bitftp at plearn.bitnet bitftp at dearn.bitnet
> bitftp at vm.gmd.de bitftp at plearn.edu.pl
> bitftp at pucc.princeton.edu bitftp at pucc.bitnet
> * *
>
>
> ~ Mirror-sites requested! Archives too!
> The latest new jpeg will always be named, 12hr.jpeg
> Average size of images is only 45K.
> *
> Perl program to mirror ftp-sites/sub-directories:
> src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/mirror
> *
>
> ~ Postings to usenet newsgroups:
> 12hr
> alt.12hr
> alt.binaries.pictures.12hr
> alt.binaries.pictures.misc
> alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc
>
> * * Ask your system's news-administrator to carry these groups!
> (There are also usenet image browsers: TIFNY, PluckIt, Picture Agent,
> PictureView, Extractor97, NewsRover, Binary News Assistant, EasyNews)
> * * A secondary stream of the sequenced imagery is now uploaded/repeated:
> about a thousand scans behind for those missing earlier offerings.
>
>
> ~ This interminable, relentless (online) sequence of imagery began in
> earnest on December 30, 1994. The basic structure of the project has been
> over thirty years in the making. While the specific sequence of
> photographs has been presently orchestrated for many years` worth of
> 12-hour postings, I will undoubtedly be tempted to tweak the ongoing
> publication with additional new interjected imagery. Each 12-hour image
> is like the turning of a page; providing ample time for reflection,
> interruption, and assimilation.
>
> ~ The sites listed above also contain information on other cultural
> projects and sources.
>
> ~ A very low-volume, moderated mailing list for announcements and
> occasional
> commentary related to this project has been established. To subscribe to
> 12-list,
> simply send a message with the word "subscribe" in the Subject: field to
> 12-list-request at eskimo.com
>
> --
> The image was to make nothing visible but their connection with
> one another by space and air, yet each surrounded by the unique
> aura that disengages every deeply seen image from the world of
> irrelevant relationships and calls forth a tremor of
> astonishment at its fateful necessity. Thus from artworks of
> dead masters, over-life-size strangeness whose names we do not
> know and do not wish to know, look out at us enigmatically as
> symbols of all being.
>
> --
>
> Big Grey Bricks: This project also serves as a rehearsal for its
> culmination as a series of offset-printed volumes: each 800+ full-bleed
> pages (5x8"_300lpi), where the full integrated rhythm of
> greyscale-sequence can be more intricately resolved. I'd provide all
> design, prepress and production. The tonality of the imagery is
> important; these 12hr-jpegs scanned from film-prints are quick
> approximations for an institutionally unsupported outcome.
>
> --
>
> This project remains untainted by corrupt corporate and glib government
> art-subsidies. Some opportunities still exist for financially assisting the
> publication of editions of large (33x46") prints; perhaps (Iris giclees)
> inkjet duotones or extended-black quadtones with diasec on dibond mount.
>
> Other supporters receive rare copies of the first three web-offset printed
> ISBN-Books. Contributions and requests for 12hr-email-subscriptions,
> can also be made at http://bradbrace.net/buy-into.html,
> or by mailed cheque/check: $5/mo $50/yr. Art-institutions must pay $12K
> for each image retained longer than 12 hours. Should this work be
> exhibited,
> the curator/administrators must be crammed naked in an open metal cage and
> mercilessly poked with sharp sticks for the duration of the installation.
>
>
> --
>
> ISBN is International Standard Book Number. JPEG and GIF are types of
> image files. Get the text-file, 'pictures-faq' to learn how to view or
> translate these images. [http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/netcom/pictures
> -faq.html <http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/netcom/pictures-faq.html>] The
> 12hr-project is the world's first and longest-running
> photo-blog.
>
> ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: No one and nothing. For over 20 years I've been
> posting this series of imagery online with out a nickel of support or
> word of critical consideration. More proof of corrupt cultural agency
> that excludes all but the validated insider sycophants. World (art)history
> is but a shuffled pack of lies. Here is, in total 40+ years' photo-artwork
> that only thrives beyond institutional tyranny.
>
> "You live in what we call the reality-based community. But
> that's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now,
> and when we act, we create our own reality... we're history's actors...
> and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
> -- 12hr Grey House Official
>
>
> --
>
> (c) Credit appreciated. Copyleft
>
> 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
> 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
>
>
> <bbrace at eskimo.com>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 14:45:02 -0400
> From: Ed Summers <ehs at pobox.com>
> To: Marcin Wilkowski <m at wilkowski.org>
> Cc: webcultures at listcultures.org
> Subject: Re: [WebCultures] grassroots web archiving projects
> Message-ID: <1E49B7ED-449B-48F2-85D6-3D968374122F at pobox.com>
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> Hi Marcin,
>
> > On Sep 5, 2015, at 5:42 AM, Marcin Wilkowski <m at wilkowski.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to collect information on grassroots web archiving projects -
> > web archiving is done not only by national archives or libraries but
> > also by organizations and common people. The best example is of course
> > the Internet Archive Foundation, but I found also Archive Team
> > (archiveteam.org) or the independent archival movement of Occupy Wall
> > Street (
> http://thebrooklynink.com/2011/12/26/39230-the-anarchivists-who-owns-the-occupy-wall-street-narrative/
> )
> >
> > Do you know any more similar initiatives?
>
> It?s an interesting question, I would be very interested in what you come
> up with, if you are able to share it.
>
> A few years ago I wrote a little piece [1] about the grass roots efforts
> to collect and re-publish content that Jonathan Gillette and Mark Pilgrim
> pulled offline when they committed "info-suicide" a few years ago.
>
> Also, here are a couple other stories that may be of interest:
>
> * Rhizome (New Museum) have been archiving artists' web content [2].
> * Museum of Modern Art in New York has been collecting their own
> exhibition sites. [3]
>
> Perhaps those stories aren?t grass roots enough. But they aren?t national
> libraries. I did take the liberty of forwarding your question to a new
> discussion list that is just getting started up called web-archives [4]. I
> hope that was ok.
>
> //Ed
>
> [1] http://inkdroid.org/2013/11/26/the-web-as-a-preservation-medium/
> [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web-archives/WVzzdpvmjpE
> [3]
> http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2015/05/25/moma-org-turns-20-archiving-two-decades-of-exhibition-sites
> [4]
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/a-new-tool-to-preserve-moments-on-the-internet/?_r=0
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> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 21:14:18 +0200
> From: jara rocha <jararocha at gmail.com>
> To: Ed Summers <ehs at pobox.com>
> Cc: Marcin Wilkowski <m at wilkowski.org>,
> "webcultures at listcultures.org" <webcultures at listcultures.org>
> Subject: Re: [WebCultures] grassroots web archiving projects
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> hello!
> check bookcamping and active archives:
>
> http://bookcamping.cc/
> http://activearchives.org/wiki/Main_Page
>
> cheers!
> jxxx
>
>
>
> El s?bado, 5 de septiembre de 2015, Ed S
>
> ummers <ehs at pobox.com> escribi?:
>
> > Hi Marcin,
> >
> > > On Sep 5, 2015, at 5:42 AM, Marcin Wilkowski <m at wilkowski.org
> > <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'd like to collect information on grassroots web archiving projects -
> > > web archiving is done not only by national archives or libraries but
> > > also by organizations and common people. The best example is of course
> > > the Internet Archive Foundation, but I found also Archive Team
> > > (archiveteam.org) or the independent archival movement of Occupy Wall
> > > Street (
> >
> http://thebrooklynink.com/2011/12/26/39230-the-anarchivists-who-owns-the-occupy-wall-street-narrative/
> > )
> > >
> > > Do you know any more similar initiatives?
> >
> > It?s an interesting question, I would be very interested in what you come
> > up with, if you are able to share it.
> >
> > A few years ago I wrote a little piece [1] about the grass roots efforts
> > to collect and re-publish content that Jonathan Gillette and Mark Pilgrim
> > pulled offline when they committed "info-suicide" a few years ago.
> >
> > Also, here are a couple other stories that may be of interest:
> >
> > * Rhizome (New Museum) have been archiving artists' web content [2].
> > * Museum of Modern Art in New York has been collecting their own
> > exhibition sites. [3]
> >
> > Perhaps those stories aren?t grass roots enough. But they aren?t national
> > libraries. I did take the liberty of forwarding your question to a new
> > discussion list that is just getting started up called web-archives [4].
> I
> > hope that was ok.
> >
> > //Ed
> >
> > [1] http://inkdroid.org/2013/11/26/the-web-as-a-preservation-medium/
> > [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web-archives/WVzzdpvmjpE
> > [3]
> >
> http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2015/05/25/moma-org-turns-20-archiving-two-decades-of-exhibition-sites
> > [4]
> >
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/a-new-tool-to-preserve-moments-on-the-internet/?_r=0
> >
>
>
> --
>
> '
> jara rocha
> objetolog?as <http://objetologias.tumblr.com/>
> @jararocha <https://twitter.com/jararocha>
> -orama <http://jararocha.blogspot.com.es/>
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