Archiving Database Driven Websites for Future Digital Archaeologists: The Archiving of TAPoR

Digital born internet projects in the Digital Humanities and in other fields of study are constantly being started while others are being terminated. Of those that are successful in the long run, they undergo numerous changes over time. Most of these projects and their evolution are not well documented. For many reasons, researchers and scholars are not very willing to self-archive their projects. We cannot rely only on big internet archiving initiatives like the Internet Archive to document for us our digital heritage. With the aim of encouraging the planning and creation of an archive from the early stages of projects, this paper presents the simple process through which an archive of TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research) was created and deposited using existing free to use somewhere and file formats that will ensure that the archive is easily accessible to archaeologists of the future

Speculating with Voyant: Designs for Data Walls

In recent years, there has been an explosion of data. One approach to big data is visualization. Data can be transformed in aesthetic ways to reveal its truths and to make it appear accessible to humans. What often gets ignored in visualization is the context of consumption of visualizations. Increasingly visualizations are showing up on data walls in public spaces. The scale of data walls and the types of spaces where they are installed change the interpretation and rhetorical affordances of visualization, and that is what this paper is about: exploring the new visual space of data walls through speculative design prototypes