The construction of cultural memory in a changing historical context: the FILEALIVE’s experience

Abstract

This report is about the process of the research entitled FILEALIVE: the cultural memory of the changing historical context in a recent past. The object of the research is the FILE - International Electronic Language Festival archive- its records constituted through documents and data over twenty years. The content narrates the practical developments arising from the on-line meetings held in March 2021, more specifically what was unfolded from the session entitled "Archive as an Institution" held on March 30, 2021, in which an alliance of partners was effected between ISEA (International Electronic Art Symposium), ACM SIGGRAPH (Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques) and FILE team with the goal of seeking interconnection between  the digital archive of each organization. The report also details the step-by-step of searching the complex data connection between archives and the process of implementing FILE's digital database, which is being carried out according to the semantic and defined data modeling, including the registration of data information related to the years 2015 to 2019, aiming at its organization in the Tainacan digital repository.