Title: Visual Digital Archives – Information Design for Content
Stream: Visual Archives
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Authors:
Marta Fernandes, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Abstract:
This article is part of a study on the visual methods data and information organization that recur to information visualization structures, for the purpose of future preservation of physical and born digital content. It also aims to recognize the designing of archives as an active process in information storage and retrieval.
The building of an Archive, a structured and declared element of information, implies the awareness of existing data organization processes. This management of information allows interconnections between organizations made visible in projects like ‘Europeana’. Yet, most archives offer very laborious search modes, interfering with our ability to interpret and read information that should be more pervious. Design, archiving and image are fertile ground for the conceptualization, creation and origin of new visual media in information visualization. Within this context, we study, observe and infer on how they can become an implementation model for new types of archives – visual digital archives. With this study, we seek to analyse what is behind the digital archive model. It aims to infer on perception, culture and visual lexicon issues, giving guidelines to the creation and construct of visual digital archives. The methodology is focused on literary review and case studies, which propose that, there are recurrent visual models of organizing data and that information visualization can set the creation of broader visual digital archive structures.
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