The aim of the project is to contribute to the slowly but surely emerging debate on data bias and to offer approaches to de-bias knowledge production and confront the existing bias in archives.
It is designed as a creative and practical intervention to address an as yet oftentimes overlooked problematic. Learn more about the arguments, relevant reading material, tools and projects by others here: www.dynarchiving.com
It provides a practical tool-kit for archival institutions like museums, libraries, universities, archives of any kind in GLAM work spaces. They can add the free tools to their websites, i.e. single posts or pages: historical records, databases, digitized papers, any kind of archival material they publish.
The tools address users at the exact moment when they are accessing and searching the respective sites.
For the time being, these tools are:
- 2 custom cursors – with an endless loop
- 2 custom cursors – the loop stops after 15 seconds
- 1 message-bot
- 1 chatbot
Overview: The Tools
You can even try them out!
- The Cursor No. 1
- The Cursor No. 1 v1
- The Cursor No. 2
- The Cursor No. 2 v1
- The Message-Bot
- The Chatbot
Just add them via HTML to the body of the respective site, page or post. If your website is based on Wordpress, just add a custom HTML block, then drop the code in the html field – done.
Archival institutions like museums, libraries, universities – websites that publish archival material, historical records of any kind.
Anne Haeming – I am an interdisciplinary researcher and author, with a focus on provenance research and digital humanities.
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The research for and work on “Dynarchiving” was possible thanks to a fellowship at Heinz Heinen Kolleg as part of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies BCDSS (May-August 2025).