Charles is survived by his father, Philip; his sisters Elizabeth, Joyce, Carola and Virginia; his brothers Philip, David, Kenneth, and Edward; his beloved nieces and nephews; his partner, Andrew Tobias; and his work, archived at charlesnolan.com.
Shahid is internationally syndicated with the New York Times Press Syndicate and has work archived at the Museum of Contemporary History in Paris.
This necessary expertise must be balanced, however, with an understanding of the information science practices and technical realities central to modern curation work: archiving, indexing, data modeling, ontology development and usage, etc.
"It's a working archive, for a department which believes it has a long-term, historic interest in many parts of the world," he said.
The diagram below (Figure 3), is a representation of the widely-used OAIS (Open Archival Information System) model for designing and implementing digital archives, and it illustrates the key components of a working archive which require the application of carefully chosen standards and practices (Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, [55], p. 4 1).
As of today, Emerson and company have collected more than 1,500 items into a diverse, functioning (yes, each one works) archive, including everything from 80s-era portable computers to floppy disc video games.
His signature works — archives of photographs and found objects — have a recalcitrant charm but are hardly boundary-pushing.
Besides digitising images of the permanent collection (which many major institutions are currently in the process of doing), one way to display holdings is the idea of the Schaulager (translation: 'storage display') – in which visitors can see works archived, on sliding racks, behind glass, or during restoration.
From the 1980s Antony Penrose, who had known nothing of his mother's photography career, worked to archive and promote her work, which had been largely forgotten by the art world.
