The fourth of the expert working session:
The working sessions are to enable the core curatorial team to gain knowledge and experience. The sessions are closed but the raw resources will be on-line soon.
Archivist Sue Breakwell lead the sessions. In the first, Sue recounted her experiences of working in different archives, and narrated the history of archiving. And in the second we refined the mapping of the knowledge ecology of intermediae, to start restructuring the server and implementing an archival practice..........
I wrote into Sue’s presentation as she spoke, following are the tweaked notes....
The fourth of the expert working sessions:
The working sessions are to enable the core curatorial team to gain knowledge and experience. The sessions are closed but the raw resources will be on-line.
Archivist Sue Breakwell lead the sessions. In the first, Sue recounted her experiences of working in different archives, and narrated the history of archiving. And in the second we refined the mapping of the knowledge ecology of intermediae, to start restructuring the server and implementing an archival practice..........
I wrote into Sue’s presentation as she spoke, following are the tweaked notes....
The third of the Procesos de archivo /Archivalprocess expert working sessions took place. The working sessions are to enable the core curatorial team to gain knowedge and experience. The sessions are closed but resources will be on-line soon.
Curator, editor and librarian Miren Eraso, recent director of Arteleku lead the sessions. In the first, Miren made an interesting analogy between the problems for libraries in post-Franco Spain and contemporary archives, and in the second we refined the mapping of the knowldge ecology of intermediae.I wrote into Miren’s presentation as she spoke, following are the tweaked notes....
Day 2: 10am - 3pm
We returned to the document map we began with Jorge, we transcribed all the categories.
Synthesized them, and began another iteration of the map, on another huge sheet of paper.
We tried to picture a possible archival structure for Intermediae. It was hard, it was very hard.We realized we were tracing the labour of an institution, mapping the info-ecosystem. We first listed the categories of processes, and affinities of information that comprise intermediae. Then we plotted the current themes and projects, and tried to coreolate. We were stuck. We were circling around, and getting stuck again, it was frustrating.
However hard we tried, we could not map the processes of intermediae through the projects it produces.And so we reversed the process and let the projects structure intermediae.
This was a profound realization. The frustration eased as we quickly restructured the map. An organization committed to process is immanent, the projects produce intermediae, and not the other way around. There is nothing (or not much) without the projects!
We decide to restructure the server datatbase categories...............and keep experimenting with a timeline as an interface.
Read about the first working session, or return to sesiones de trabajo, or procesos de archivo