01 — Evidence
Confidence, not decree
Records present evidence and confidence states. Inclusion means the community preserved context and research history, not that ARTchive has become a final authenticity authority.
Linked Projects • Digital Preservation
A public archive for creative artifacts and the evidence around them.
ARTchive.site is a preservation platform for cataloging culturally meaningful artifacts with provenance, context, evidence, and relationship research. The first pilot focuses on Matt Dinniman / CollageOrama dictionary prints and related artwork.
Archive model
Preserve context without flattening the artifact.
ARTchive separates conceptual works, physical artifacts, variants, evidence, sightings, provenance stories, and relationships so the public record can stay nuanced as research improves.
02 — Relationships
Graph-aware records
Artifacts can connect through adjacency, acquisition, sightings, evidence objects, and provenance stories without being merged into one over-simplified item.
03 — Privacy
Contributor control
Public attribution is designed to avoid exposing login identity by default, with explicit choices for Reddit-name attribution and future fallback sign-in paths.
Pilot archive
CollageOrama starts the archive with real records.
The first implementation focuses on dictionary-page prints and related artwork, where page numbers, visible words, front/back scans, signatures, condition, acquisition stories, and related files all matter.
- Public artifact pages and shareable archive metadata.
- Evidence tabs, timeline views, and relationship context.
- Metadata-scrubbed public derivatives with private originals retained separately.
- Azure Static Web Apps authentication for current upload workflows.
The project stance.
- Preservation first
- Built to preserve fragmented internet-era culture and the stories attached to physical creative artifacts.
- Not a marketplace
- No price speculation, grading posture, sales workflow, or ownership certification baked into the public record.
- Multi-archive future
- The model is intended to support many archive types through configurable metadata templates.
View the prototype
ARTchive is live at artchive.site.
Open the project site to browse the current public archive prototype while the archive model and pilot collection continue to mature.
Project site
artchive.site