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Possibilities…

The English Oxford Dictionary: Source

The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary — and literary history. The compilation of the OED began in 1857, it was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.

 

The Database// The (incomplete) Index

Archive	Image	Organize	Institution
Archiving	Cultural property	Art	Collection
Power	Creation	Statements	Universe
Authority	Memory	Temple	Prison
Knowledge	Materialism	Things	Souvenir
History	Aura	Significance	Insignificance
Past	Container	Spectacle	File
Document	Cabinet	Totems	Mausoleum
Truth	Accumulation	Trace	Dust
Vault	Mirror	Impulse	Archaeology
Storage	Digging	Historical a priori	Reality
Story	Artifact	Discourse	Real
Materiality	Reproduction	Data	Database
Object	Linear	Capitalism	Photography
Catalogue	Culture	Editing	Library
Index	Selection	Navigation	Narrative
Alphabet	Cultural from	Symbolic	Record
Numbers	Aesthetics	Ethics	Passive
Ordering	Active	Museum	Fragment
Seriality	Interpret(ation)	Fragile	Meaning
System	Preserve	Testimony	Collective memory
Digital	Details	Mosaic	Text
Digitization	Influence	Monument	Box
Form	Connection	Death	Containment
Function	Visibility	Existence	From
Access	Description	Metadata	Curating
Mass	Inert	Fixed	Fluid
Critical mass	Critique	Information	Life
Mediation	Displacement	Fear	Shadow
Expose	Disappear	Chaos	Classification
Taxonomy	Positivism	Counter-monument	Site-environment
Surveillance	Intellectual property	Identity	Authenticity
Culture	Society	Control	Value
Copyright	Standardization	Ownership	Original
Imagination	Collection	Motive	Selection
Subjective	Objective	Democratic	Untilitarian
Non-utilitarian	Sacred	Immortalization	Talisman
Encyclopedia	Totality	Dewey decimal system	Labeling
Internet	Records	Individual	Destruction
Atlas	Private	Public	Universality
Neutral	Album	Arrangement	Cartography
Computer	Exhibition	Drawer	Shelves
Encoding	Evidence	Disposal	Fiction
Found	Film	Genre	Graveyard
Gathering	Information	Inventory	Interaction
Memorial	Nostalgia	Museum	Origin
Passages	Research	Restoration	Recycling
Search	Vanishing	Warehouse

Eugene Ategt	Bernd & Hilla Becher	Joseph Beuys	Christian Boltanski
Karstan Bott	Sophie Calle	Joseph Cornell	Marcel Duchamp
Vera Frenkel	Louise Lawler	Andy Warhol	Susan Hiller
Candida Hofer

The Database part II: Learning From Others

Organizing Your Film Archive

Temple or Prison

 

 

Randall C. Jimerson “Embracing the Power of the Archives” in The American Archivist, Vol 69 (Spring/Summer 2006) : 19-32

Collecting

The Early Office Museum

“The Early Office Museum™ engages in research on the history and evolution of offices, antique office machines and equipment, and business technology based on original documents, artifacts, and vintage photographs.”  

“The Early Office Museum is a web site and does not have a collection of office items or a building. 

The Early Office Museum has no external funding.  Not one cent of tax-payer money.  That’s right:  no bailouts, no economic stimulus funds, no earmarks.  No advertising sales.  No membership fees.  No ticket sales.  No endowment.  No grants.  No lobbyists.”

www.earlyofficemuseum.com

Included in the Collector’s Weekly Hall of Fame  for Best Collector Sites on the Web!!

Collecting or Accumulating… Whether there is intention or not…. does it matter when we get great sites like these?!!

Choose Your Own Adventure

what’s the relation between navigation of the archive and navigation of the books?

Choose your Own Adventure… play!!