The Archive is a long-running family preservation project: photographs, artwork, film, video and documents collected across decades, with the goal of keeping both the objects and the stories around them from quietly disappearing.
Preservation is more than scanning
Digitizing an old photograph is easy. Preserving what it means is harder. Who is in it? Where was it made? What was happening around it? Is there another negative, print or reel that belongs with it? The useful archive is the one that keeps those relationships intact.
Physical preservation
Organizing original photographs, artwork, film and media so the physical collection remains identifiable and usable.
Digital preservation
High-quality digitization, redundant storage, sensible formats and enough metadata that files still make sense years later.
Context
Names, dates, places and family history that turn a directory full of scans back into a collection of human stories.
A technical problem with a human purpose
The project naturally overlaps with my technology work: storage design, backup, cataloging, media conversion and data integrity all matter. But the reason for doing it is not technical. Media decays, formats become unreadable and memories disappear. The Archive is an attempt to make that loss a little less inevitable.