{"id":6862,"date":"2023-10-31T06:27:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T05:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/doing-experimental-media-archaeology-dataset-published-on-europeana\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:07:38","slug":"doing-experimental-media-archaeology-dataset-published-on-europeana","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/doing-experimental-media-archaeology-dataset-published-on-europeana\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing Experimental Media Archaeology dataset published on Europeana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dataset from the research project Doing Experimental Media Archaeology (DEMA) was recently published on Europeana, the online platform of cultural heritage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doing Experimental Media Archaeology (DEMA)<\/a> was a three-year C\u00b2DH research project, funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). It systematically explored the potential of doing hands-on experiments with historical media technologies in order to better understand and experience how they worked and were used in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experiments were done with various analogue media objects, including analogue sound recording and reproduction technologies, early twentieth century home cinema and amateur filmmaking technologies, and improved phantasmagoria magic lanterns.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\nDEMA meets CRAFTED<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The DEMA dataset<\/a> comprises 202 items of high quality photos, videos, sound recordings, 360-degree and 3D representations of the various analogue media objects used in the DEMA project. These include a Cartavox sound postcard recorder, Stentorphone and Auxetophone valved sound boxes, HMV 2300H portable disc recorder, Nagra portable audio recorder, Edison \u2018Fireside\u2019 Phonograph and wax cylinders, Improved Phantasmagoria Lanterns, Kinora motion picture viewer and various amateur film and home cinema equipment, including 9.5mm, 16mm, 8mm and Super 8 film cameras, projectors and reels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dataset was published on the Europeana<\/a> platform in the context of the CRAFTED project<\/a>, aimed to support the transfer of European crafts to future generations by aggregating, enriching and promoting tangible crafts heritage and preserving intangible skills and knowledge from craftsmen and artisans. The dataset specifically contributed to the crafts-domain of \u2018analogue media production\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\nHighlights from the dataset<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the following you can find some highlights from the dataset in relation to the three DEMA sub-projects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nHistorical sound technologies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For the DEMA project, composer and researcher Aleksander Kolkowski<\/a> explored early to mid-twentieth-century sound recording and amplification technologies and their histories of use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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