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Title: Silk Memory

Proposed by: HSLU, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Disciplinary field: design, textile design, cultural history

Communication support : website, database

Type of content: photographs, metadata, texts

Timeframe of the project: 2012-15 preliminary projects, 2015-19 main project, 2022-25 funded archival operations

Author(s): various authors

Third-party copyright owners: Zurich Silk Association (ZSIG), Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Art and Design

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Silk Memory

Summary of the case study and link

The Silk Memory project aims to provide access to 200 years of Zurich silk design by creating and maintaining a physical textile archive and building a textile database. In close cooperation with museum partners, teachers, students and practising designers, a representative selection of fabric samples from textile archives of the Zurich silk industry was collected, indexed and made available online. On the basis of this background the Silk Memory web portal has been developed. It aims to be a research tool for teaching, research and above all as a source of inspiration for contemporary design work. The user interface was developed by the Astrom/Zimmer design studio and in close cooperation with the Silk Memory project team.

Problems/questions

• Storage and longterm sustainability: How to store and ensure longterm sustainability to the database
• Copyright: How to clear the copyright of third parties' material
• Creative Commons (CC): How to select and use CC licenses in order to comply with open access requirements
• Open Access Platforms: how to store data on platforms such as Europeana