A series of protocols for the MMD&C Archive

Archive Protocol/Video - off-line MMDC video archive

The MMD&C staff wants you to present your work in a standalone and archivable mode, independent from the wiki or any other medium.

In all assessments credits are given for the delivery of your work, in a standalone and archivable manner, not solely for its presentation.

What follow is an recipe on What and How to Archive ,followed overview of the Archive Cycle.

What and How to Archive

Archive computer

In the study there is a computer dedicated to archiving (Archival Machine): the mac connected with the scanner.

To archive your work login to:
Account: Archive
Password: AnnetDekker

On the Desktop of the Archival Machine there is an Alias for the archive. Click on it and you will be led to the current archive's folders, prepared to receive your work.

folder structure

Inside you'll find folders named: MMD&C_trimN_Year

Where:

N is the trimester number
Year: the start and end years of your studies at pzi. e.g. 2013-2015

Inside each one of this folder you'll find folders dedicated to the courses of that trimester, such as :

MDCPRT01_Prototyping
MDCRWR01_Reading, Writing and Research Methods
MDCSDR01_Self-directed Research
MDCTHS01_Thematic Seminar
etc...

Inside each one of these course-folders you'll find a folder with your student number and name on it.

Media of your work

Depending on the medium you choose to document your work you will:

create a folder with the name of the medium of your choice for documentation (see table below)
inside that folder create 2 sub-folders, named respectively PZI and WdKA
use these 2 to store the documentation of your work

work, you will place it under a folder with the medium's name on it. Like in the example bellow.

Note:The the medium you choose to document your work does not have to be the same medium of the work. Say you do a performance, in order to document it you can choose to use photographs or video (2D), an audio recording of the event, or a text.

The following table determines the requirements and limits of the documentation you need to deliver, in any of the following media

Medium (folder name)	For WdKA	For PZI	For the wiki
2D	Requirements: Only 1 image. Format: jpg Size:< 1Mb	Requirements: At least 1 image. Max: 4 images Format: jpg
3D	Requirements: 4 images Format: jpg Size: <1Mb	what best documents the work
Audio	Requirements: Format: mp3 Max:2 files	Requirements: Format: mp3 Max:4 files
Code	Requirements: Samples from the code output and a pdf from the wikipage where you documented that work - in screenshots(see 2D requirements) video(see Video requirements)	'Requirements: Samples from the code output and a pdf from the wikipage where you documented that work - in screenshots(see 2D requirements) video(see Video requirements
Text	Requirements: PDF 's of each text or wikipage. NO .txt .rtf .doc. odt ... ONLY PDF!	Requirements: PDF 's of each text or wikipage. NO .txt .rtg .doc. odt ... ONLY PDF!	Name your files accordingly: Assignments_Title_Yourname.pdf - for assignments Printed_matter_Title_Yourname.pdf - for catalogues, printed books, etc Project_description_Title_Yourname.pdf - for project descriptions Trim#_notes_Title_Yourname.pdf - for notes taken over the trimester # Trim#_process_Title_Yourname.pdf - for process documentation taken over the trimester # Technical_plan_Title_Yourname.pdf - for technical plans
Video	Requirements: 8 screenshots Format: jpg Size: <1Mb	Requirements: full-length export of the video Format: mp4,mkv,mov

Semester 6 - Graduation

The last (graduation) semester's documentation is archived in the archiving machine, under the MMD&C_trim6_Student_Work_Achrive_2013-2015 folder, organized into 3 child folders:

MDCGPS06_Graduate Project Seminar_2013-2015 archives the project process.
MDCGRS06_Graduate Research Seminar_2013-2015 archives the Thesis
MDCSDR06_Self-directed Research_2013-2015 archives the final project, including the gradshow.

Archive Cycle

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reference for Leslie

trim 1-3

Descriptions of work (minimum of three short texts)
Synopsis /annotations/of texts (minimum of three short texts)
media essay (thematic changes each year)
essay on practice