Facebook in May began an archive of political ads, which is a publicly searchable database that catalogs the ads and identifies which groups or individuals paid for them.
Paraphrasing French sociologist Marcel Mauss, who wrote of "les techniques du corps," Sussman adds the hope with this encounter is "to build together and begin disseminating an archive of shared knowledge: 'les techniques des manifs.'" To be sure, techniques of manifestations are not only expanding across the world but continue to intensify.
He also began compiling an archive on the art of all periods and cultures, from prehistoric to contemporary, from aboriginal to classical.
"Endcommercial" began as an archive of some 60,000 snapshots of common city sights, which Florian Böhm, Luca Pizzaroni and Wolfgang Scheppe have been compiling since 1997.
In the summer and fall of 2001 Mr. Basinski began digitizing an archive of analog tape loops he recorded in the early 1980s, mostly snippets of beautiful American pastoral pieces, as he put it in a program note.
For content, Ms. Orlando began compiling an archive of interviews (the Grammy-winning jazz singer Diane Schuur was interviewed in the Female Musician studio), CD reviews, concert reviews, a list of female artists' Web sites and classified ads.
In 2015, I revisited the images of my uncle and began building an archive with the intention of starting a project that would explore the connection I had with them, but midway through this process, the project evolved.
In 2005, photographer Nick Danziger began to create an archive of photographs documenting the lives of women and children in eight countries around the world.
To ground the group's research in a real-world situation, the researchers began by building an archive of video interviews with the judges, prosecutors and other members of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
