But one archive stands out for me as the single happiest working experience of my life.
It was originally conceived as a site-specific work for the ONE Archives in Los Angeles, the oldest active lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender archive in the US.
In addition, creation and testing of other anonymous tissue archives, such as one based on coronial autopsies, or a repeat of the appendix survey on an even larger scale, should provide a larger sample set of the people most exposed to the bovine spongiform encephalopathy agent.
He describes the online archive as "one of the best things in Egyptology".
"At the same time, as one of the largest archives of scholarly literature in the world, we must be careful stewards of the information entrusted to us by the owners and creators of that content.
This sets high requirements on the control and data acquisition (CoDaC) system, with the archive database as one of its main components.
But in their current mixed bill, Rambert make a supremely confident case not only as a company that can draw its work from a variety of sources but as one that has a deep archive to raid.
I was already primed to love comics thanks to my dad, who took superhero origin stories as seriously as one might consider Homer or Shakespeare, archiving hundreds of historic, yellowed issues from the Silver Age wrapped in plastic and stacked in boxes that filled the storage under our stairwell.
Underwear is not as far out of Schwab's comfort zone as one might imagine – looking back through his archive, the inspiration from underwear details and foundation garments in his designs are plainly evident.
