This is the index of my project archive. Like any archive, this archive has its fair share of human errors, because I am only human and the only person who manages it. 

Material is entered into the archive when it is considered part of the project. However, items have been removed from the archive as I have learnt more about my topic. For example, as I became more aware of copyright and data protection, archival items which I believe violated these rules were removed.1 I also removed material I believed did not contribute enough to the research to minimise server space and energy consumption,2 and to prevent the archive from becoming an unwieldy repository akin to – “the dustbin of history.”3 

I found it increasingly urgent to back up my archival items, given Jill Lepore’s observation that the average lifespan of a webpage is about 100 days.4 This urgency was further  underscored by the cyber attack on the British Library in October 2023.5


The format of the archival codes

OHD_XXX_NNNN = oral history design _ the medium _ the order in which it was archived

List of mediums

  • AUD = Audio
  • BLG = Blog
  • BOK = Book
  • COL = Collection
  • DSN = Design
  • DSF = Design Fiction
  • DRW = Drawing
  • FRM = Form
  • PHO = Photo
  • PST = Post it
  • PRS = Presentation
  • PRT = Prototype
  • RPT = Report
  • RCP = Receipt
  • SCP = Scrap
  • SSH = Screenshot
  • SCT = Script
  • SPS = Spread Sheet
  • VID = Video
  • WHB = Whiteboard
  • WKS = Workshop
  • WRT = Writing

TAGS

Access acquisition affect Analogue Archive Archives Archiving catalogue change Climate Change Climate Crisis Collaboration Collection Community conservation Copyright culture curation Data Data Protection Design Design Fiction Design Thinking Dialogue Digital Digital archives Digital Heritage Dynamic Ethics Funding Future Heritage Heritage Sites History Indexing Infrastructure Infrastructuring Intangible Heritage Internet interpretation Interview Interviewing Labour Language Maintenance maintenance art maintenance design Money National Trust NCBS online Oral History oral history recordings Oral History Technology Power Process professionalisation Project Project Plan Projects Reading Group Recordings Reflection Research Research Room Reuse Seaton Delaval Hall Silicone Valley Slow Scholarship Social Media Space Storage Stories surrogates Technology Testing The British Library Training Wicked Problem Workshop


  1. OHD_SCP_0139 ↩︎
  2. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200305-why-your-internet-habits-are-not-as-clean-as-you-think ↩︎
  3. Tansey, T. (1999). Why keep it? Throw it in the ‘dustbin of history’. A Healthy Heritage25, 31. ↩︎
  4. Lepore, J. (2015) The Cobweb: Can the internet be archived, January 26 2015 issue The New Yorker ↩︎
  5. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67544504 ↩︎