Reading

This is a selected reading list of web-based articles and some books that relate to the topic of archiving artist-run spaces and digital preservation. As search engines have become optimized to present the latest updated pages, on larger platforms or brand sites, and with an eye toward monetization, it gets harder and harder to find great blog posts, articles, and tutorials. This is a directory of interesting and useful links that have inspired me.

Methods

Archiving Artist Spaces Copyright Guide prepared by scholars at the NYU Technology Law & Policy (…also available as a PDF)

Principles and Best Practices in Oral History by the Oral History Association (archive.org copy)

Preservation Strategies for Born-Digital Materials on the Smithsonian Institution Archives (archive.org copy)

Artists in the Archive syllabus by Jer Thorp on GitHub (Tildegit mirror)

What Do you Mean by Archive? Genres of Usage for Digital Preservers on The Signal: Digital Happenings at the Library of Congress (archive.org copy)

Doing Right Online: Archivists Shape an Ethics for the Digital Age on Perspectives on History, the magazine of the American Historical Society (archive.org copy)

Permacomputing and Website Fidelity

Principles of Permacomputing on the Permacomputing Wiki (archive.org copy)

Website Fidelity on Jim Nielsen’s Blog (archive.org copy)

Lib-Static: a methodology, a collection, a community on GitHub by Institute of Museum and Library Services and the University of Idaho ( GitHub source )

Preserve This Podcast (archive.org copy)

Digital preservation Techniques

Data Extinction in MIT Review (archive.org copy)

Digital Preservation Management: Implementing short-term strategies for long-term problems (archive.org copy)

The Five Organizational Stages of Digital Preservation in the Scholarly Monograph Series (archive.org copy)

Duchamp is my Lawyer by Kenneth Goldsmith (and at New York Public Library)

Fresh Archiving Approaches

New Archive Interpretations (archive.org copy by Het Nieuwe Instituut)

Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk: What kind of archivist are you? for New Archive Interpretations (archive.org copy)

Open Source Publishing (archive.org copy)

Printed archives from artist-run communities

Coaxial Arts Book. Design by Sean Deyoe, forward by William Hutson, Intro by Founder Eva Aguila.

This is X book from Institute for X by USE Studio (archive.org copy)

Elevator Mondays by Don Edler

Code snippets

Scrape The Internet For Our Archives by Babycastles on GitHub (mirror on Tildegit)

How To Download A Website With Wget The Right Way (archive.org copy)