Translations:Project Digivis/3/en

For cultural and memory institutions (GLAM), new opportunities, scopes for design and challenges have arisen in the course of digitization. On the one hand, numerous online platforms and software products offer solutions for various subtasks of archiving and imparting, which can be used with appropriate resources. On the other hand, criteria such as flexible design, increased coverage, interoperability, improved clarity, sustainability, usability or didactic added value are far from easy to solve given the complexity of technical, legal and design problems. In recent years, not least of all, generic interfaces, digital visualization strategies and possibilities for the visual exploration of archives have been developed. The present digitization project builds on these developments and bundles them with regard to a modular set of open source software for the visual presentation and analysis of archive material. In addition, epistemological and methodological aspects of visualization, which have so far been neglected, are also being considered. On the basis of networked visualization structures, the modular software architecture to be developed enables the design of generic interfaces for the interactive presentation and analysis of archivals as well as discursive and paradigmatic structures in mediographic archive portals.