Biblio-Graph

  • Biblio-graph is an application intended for cultural libraries and archives. It works as a tool to create a digital representation of fragments of their physical or digital collections.

  • It is a community sourced environment for data aggregation, mapping and visualisation of the collection.

  • Biblio-graph works as an interaction layer, consisting of a semantic layer and a graph database that sits on top of the existing databases of libraries.

  • Through Biblio-graph readers, researchers and staff will be able to interfere, manipulate, share and reuse data without affecting the original database.

Biblio-Graph is a digital archiving system for cultural organizations, publishers, collectives, and social movements that want to make their collections accessible online. It works as an interaction layer on top of existing databases and websites.

On Biblio-Graph, you can view and read the archive, moving through the network of people, organizations, objects, and events in the collection.

Biblio-Graph is a digital archiving system for cultural organizations, publishers, collectives, and social movements that want to make their collections accessible online. It works as an interaction layer on top of existing databases and websites.

On Biblio-Graph, you can view and read the archive, moving through the network of people, organizations, objects, and events in the collection.

See Biblio-Graph in use

de Appel Archive

de Appel Archive

de Appel Archive

Jan van Eyck Academy Archive

Jan van Eyck Academy Archive

Jan van Eyck Academy Archive

Framer Framed Archive

Framer Framed Archive

Framer Framed Archive

The Biblio-Graph system

Mobile Archive Unit

RFID Reading and
image capturing table

The Mobile Archive Unit (Silverfish) is made for data creation, curation, and community-sourced data aggregation. Staff, researchers, and visitors can contribute by digitizing objects.

It’s a library trolley equipped with a phone, lights and custom software that pairs the digitized object with its existing record in the database. The unit can also be used to create a digital archive from scratch, with the digitized images serving as both the source and provenance of metadata.

The Mobile Archive Unit feeds Biblio-Graph with images paired with records, which are then displayed as a network visualization. Each image acts as an entry point to the entire database: by clicking on an image, you can view related metadata, and by clicking on metadata, you can see its connections to other objects in the collection.

  • Biblio-graph Capture

  • Biblio-graph Capture

  • Biblio-graph Capture

Publish

Publish at Framer Framed

Publish at Framer Framed

Publish at Framer Framed

Biblio-graph Publish is a tool to make books in the browser developed by Archival Consciousness in collaboration with Framer Framed.

We have seen websites disappear and years of accumulated content getting lost, or websites being published as a book to preserve the content. With Publish our aim is to rethink publishing from the perspective of archiving and long-term preservation.

Publish is a tool for editors and designers to collaborate in the same page and make hybrid books that can be a web page distributed as a url, a pdf for offline reading, or a high-res pdf for offset printing. In the near future it will be possible to export datasets and publishing as Linked Open Data.

Biblio-graph Publish is a tool to make books in the browser developed by Archival Consciousness in collaboration with Framer Framed.

We have seen websites disappear and years of accumulated content getting lost, or websites being published as a book to preserve the content. With Publish our aim is to rethink publishing from the perspective of archiving and long-term preservation.

Publish is a tool for editors and designers to collaborate in the same page and make hybrid books that can be a web page distributed as a url, a pdf for offline reading, or a high-res pdf for offset printing. In the near future it will be possible to export datasets and publishing as Linked Open Data.

Catching Up in the Archive, de Appel Amsterdam

Catching Up in the Archive, 2022, installation views. Photography: Johannes Schwartz

Archival Consciousness was initiated by artist Mariana Lanari and graphic designer Remco van Bladel to collaborate with libraries and archives in cultural institutions. We work in close collaboration with archivists to implement methods and infrastructure to turn their collections more accessible. We are interested in the long term preservation and dissemination of physical archives, in connection with the digital archive. The digital component of archives, their databases, are the starting point of our work. We are developing a shared and community oriented Knowledge Graph that acts as an interaction layer on top of the existing databases of libraries and archives to facilitate discovery, browsing, and navigation.

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Part of ACKnowledge, Art Routes from the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA), 2020, Creative Industries fund NL, Digital Culture program ‍© 2021, Archival Consciousness is part of the MediaFutures project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s framework Horizon 2020 for research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 951962

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