Digital Archives of Canadian Culture and Canadian Digital Policy Initiatives

New Media Collaboration Centre (NMCC) to support Augmented Reality Research, Digital Archives of Canadian Culture and Canadian Digital Policy Initiatives

The initial phase of development for Artmob was provided through a CFI application submitted with Dr. Caitlin Fisher's Augmented Reality Lab.

"The DA lab will support Fisher’s “Art of Archiving” project. This project will provide insight into the ways in which diverse information architectures underpinning digital archives make meaning and into the epistemological status of digital collections themselves. Ultimately, the Art of Archiving project will capitalize upon the possibilities of representing not only digital artifacts but also human experience in new ways.

"The DA lab will also provide essential support to Chairholder Rosemary Coombe. The DA lab will serve a key York multi-sectoral collaborative research initiative spearheaded by Coombe: the "From Portal to Policy" project. Equipment will be installed collaboratively by the Graduate Program in Communications and Culture, the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Instructional Technology Centre at York. IT will include a series of high-end G5 workstations supported by a cluster of Apple Xserves. New workstations, servers and RAID arrays will be added to the infrastructure each year, enabling the system to accommodate streaming audio/video and videoconferencing capabilities in order to facilitate national and international collaborative projects. The Xserve cluster will run a flexible, extensible custom software application, designed by Communications Studies personnel and built on the open-source Drupal content management system.

"Coombe’s “From Portal To Policy” project lab is a virtual space where York researchers will collaborate with Canadian cultural and entertainment industries, community arts organizations and academic partner institutions. It will also host a centre for Canadian digital policy initiatives, exploring intellectual property issues posed by the digitalization of cultural content while developing and disseminating best practices in IP management. In concert, the components of the “From Portal to Policy” project will act as a crucible for the creation of progressive public policy and may serve as a lever to instigate social and legal change."

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