cooArchi - community-oriented archive interface takes a strictly pluralistic approach toward analyzing a spectrum of data that is as wide as possible. Users can enter networked data together using an input mask with three fields: element – relation – element. These then become connections and nodes in a network-like archive. Due to its unlimited information space and very reduced data fields, cooArchi is trying to include unforeseen kinds of archival voices. The result is a data sculpture on the screen, i.e., the data have a haptic quality. Users do not just traverse the data as a landscape by scrolling and zooming but can also drag individual nodes, thereby changing the shape of the overall context. Comprehensive documentation of the project can be found on https://www.cooarchi.net/. cooArchi was financed by the BMBF Prototype Fund. The open-source software was developed over six months by a five-person team (Jonathan Meyer, Kathia von Roth, Michael Scholl, Luna Nane, Lukas Fuchsgruber). Lukas Fuchsgruber, from the joint project “Museums and Society: Mapping the Social,” was involved as a digital art historian, focusing on research and documentation.
Joint archiving
cooArchi – community-oriented archive interface – can be used to carry out joint archiving.
