My mission is to bring real living-archive experience, open-source and custom tooling, and a passion for preservation together for artists’ studios and small cultural organizations. To create and develop systems and tools that work for their employees today and into the future, when today’s work becomes the archive, so it can withstand turbulent technological change.
An inventory of digital assets, domain names, current hardware, and an overview of your local network. I’ll review your needs, assess risks, and deliver a plan.
I lay the groundwork by prioritizing the archiving of time-tested legacy file formats on cutting-edge file systems, so you can digitize your prints, negatives and ephemera from the start the right way. I’ll recommend hardware and help configure your systems and backups, work with you on developing a digital archive structure based on your existing workflow, develop custom tooling based on your needs, and leave you with a handy reference guide for site-wide application and onboarding of new employees.
Fast, static sites owned by the artist. No subscriptions, no platform lock-in. Support when you need it.
Painting portfolio for an artist on the Main Line, outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Custom features we worked on together include having every painting show in proportion to its real size. It is quickly growing into a living archive of her work.
Moved 265 TB of a photographer's archive to cloud storage before consolidating two studios, so the move never risked the only copy.
An ongoing photography project about Pennsylvania, moved from hand-written HTML to Hugo. Features an interactive map using the geographic locations of photographs.
One Python script that makes a folder of scans, RAW files and TIFFs browsable in a web browser, with thumbnails and an image viewer. No database, server or account, and the pages open from a NAS, a USB drive or straight from disk.
If you have an archive, a collection or a website that needs looking after or creating, write to phil@philcifone.com.