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GLOBALLY CONNECTING 

NEW MEDIA ART ARCHIVES 

Progress, Goals and Challenges​

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GLOBALLY CONNECTING 

NEW MEDIA ART ARCHIVES 

Progress, Goals and Challenges​

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FILE ARCHIVE is a FILE initiative that aims to make available and share its collection and bring together 23 years of achievements.

Throughout its history, FILE has built a unique collection; having held 53 exhibitions and exhibited more than 8,000 national and international works of artists from more

than 48 countries.

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PHISICAL ARCHIVE

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Digital Repository in numbers

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YEARS

COLLECTIONS

ITEMS

METADATA / FILTERS

TAXONOMIES

9 years 

2014-2022

Cataloged, inventoried,

and inputted 

at the repository

8 individual

collection  

Including artwoks, participants, events, venues, publication

& media, educational activities and phisical archive

3400+ 

individual items inputted

Selection 

of filters and metadata configured 

for each collection. 

26 

taxonomies

with their respective terms, controlled language 

for data input

Digital Repository in numbers

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CHALLENGES AND LEARNED LESSONS

  •  WIKI QID – Relationship process with Brazilian Wiki movement to acquisition of artists Wiki QIDs.​

  •  Creating Entries on Wikipedia: creating artists’ entries and QIDs on Wikipedia.

FILE ARCHIVE and its collaboration with the Brazilian Wiki movement to improve the database system and create entries for artists on Wikipedia.

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Wikimedia Commons and FILE Festival

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Wiki + FILE:

Wikipedia

GLAM

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EDIT-A-THON PROPOSAL

We are excited to announce a new addition to our program: an edit-a-thon on the first day of the FILE 2023 São Paulo event, on July 05th-, 2023. 

This edit-a-thon is a Marathon of Editions in Wikipedia, where we will work together to improve articles about artists from all over the world who have attended previous editions of FILE.

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workshop@file.org.br​

Participation:

EDIT-A-THON PROPOSAL

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FILEALIVE / ARQUIVOVIVO PROJECT, 

supported by EDITAL PROAC EXPRESSO LAB 

Doctoral research project “ARQUIVO VIVO”, 

by Paula Perissinotto | Post Graduate Program in Visual Arts at the University of São Paulo (PPGAV-USP) under the guidance of Professor Silvia Laurentiz.

Consulting in Informational Architecture and Software: Luciana Martins | Percebe, research, consulting 

and educational training 

Instagram | Twitter:

@filefestival

TAINACAN Project Coordination: Dalton Martins

Administrative and Financial Management Coordination: 

Fabiana Krepel

Graphic Design: Bruna Mayer 

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