A digital archive is a place for the dissemination of knowledge, a medium for the representation of information and a space to create new relationships between stored memories, and between the past and the present. The networked structure of the digital archive allows for greater fluidity and dynamics in the circulation of data and the distribution of information among several users.
Meta-Archive consists of a digital archive of archives and about archives. The archive of archives component results from a selection of online repositories that gather born-digital works, and which constitute this project's database. The archive about archives is expressed as a network visualization of the main concepts that characterize and describe digital archives. It includes including the categorization of the selected projects, which results from an analysis of the architecture, the model and the theme of each selected repository. Therefore, in order to integrate the digital archive, these items are always subject to processes of documentation, being then recontextualized, remediated and represented.
Meta-Archive seeks to provide insight into the potential of the digital archive as a space for the sharing and circulation of information. To this end, it provides a network visualization of the various intersections between the themes of the archives, highlighting their architecture and the structure that enables the processes of documentation, (re)contextualization, (re)mediation and (re)presentation.
