The third floor is a loftlike space that is home to the Miotte Foundation, a nonprofit organization primarily dedicated to archiving and conserving Mr. Miotte's work.
The sites include detailed reference collections, encyclopedias of librettos, fan pages dedicated to performers, archives of rare audio clips and global listings of schedules and performances -- the better for planning that much-anticipated trip to Vienna or San Francisco.
There are all the accessories desired by the growing number of "lifeloggers", of which Dancy is perhaps the most extreme exponent, a community dedicated to tracking and archiving every aspect of their known existence.
The project, called New Dimensions in Testimony, was thought up by concept developer Heather Maio, and was made in a collaboration between the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies ICTT) and the Shoah Foundation – an organisation dedicated to making and archiving interviews with survivors and witnesses of genocide.
It's also dedicated to preserving the archives of artists who spent their creative lives working in the community.
Programs include American Artifacts, which is dedicated to exploring museums, archives and historical sites, and Lectures in History, featuring major university history professors giving lectures on U.S. history.
The house is now a museum and archive dedicated to Miller's work and that of her husband, the English surrealist painter Roland Penrose, and their private collection of works by their friends Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst and many others.
"I've been to conferences and when I've gone up and said I'm from Waco, I get this kind of snickering," said Dr. Mairi C. Rennie, director of the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor, a leading research archive dedicated to the English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with Sam Tabet, a producer who is part of the team behind SIGNIFIED, a multi-platform storytelling archive dedicated to the other.
Steve Peters, a Seattle-based musician and curator, set out to rectify that, and last month launched Many Many Women an online archive dedicated to female musicians actively working in the fields of avant-garde and experimental music, such as Yoko Ono, Laurel Halo, Daphne Oram, and Maria Chavez.
