Archival collection of DIY culture

1. The History of DIY – from Punk to Everyday Culture Archival Collection

2. Introduction
• Do It Yourself (DIY)
• Includes: home-improvement, the alt music-scene,
to software-engineers, art and crafter creative
scene.
• A movement on anti-consumerism
•Punk DIY was interpreted as a kind of
counterculture and a critique of consumerism.
Now is the new DIY-trend based on the same
motivation?

3. Term DIY
• Coined as early as 1912 for
Home Improvement
• Commonly used in the 1940s
- 1950s
• Popularized in the 1970s –
1980s punk movement

4. Arts and Crafts
Movement
• Attempt to reform design
and decoration in mid 19th
century Britain
• Term used by T. J.
Cobden-Sanderson (an
English Artist) at a meeting
of the Arts and Crafts
Exhibition Society in 1887.

5. From Punk
•Hand Made
Clothing
•Alternative music
•Posters
•Zines (handmade
magazines)

6. Popular Zines
- Started in the 1930s
- Popularized in late 1970s-
1980s
- Most famous zine turned
magazine is Punk
Magazine

7. Present Day
• Etsy.com #17 ranked
• Most popular site for
handmade goods
• DIY TV Shows:
• Home Improvement
channel
• Martha Stewart
• TLC’s Craft Wars
• NBC’s Making It
competition show

8. Why DIY Culture?
• Rise in mainstream
culture
• New museum
opening in Florida;
May 2019
http://stpeterising.com
/museum-of-the-
american-arts-and-
crafts-movement/
The Museum of the American Arts and
Crafts Movement

9. Digital Curation Plan
Ingest JPEG PDF MP4 Website URL
Storage Omeka System
Access Metadata By year By Movement
Media
Type
Preservation
Planning
Normalization
Format
Validation
Metadata Completion

10. Data Acquisition
• DIY artifacts by Movement. i.e. Punk, craftivism,
etc.
• DIY from each time period from 1880 – 2018
•Types of artifacts:
• Images
• Research Documents
• Video
• Audio files
• Social Media

11. Metadata Flow Chart
• Store how
data was
collected
Technical
Metadata
• Insert
copyright
information
Intellectual
Metadata
• Use a
controlled
vocabulary
for digital
objects
Object
Metadata
• Verify use of
controlled
vocabularies
with system
check
Metadata
Completeness

12. Metadata Schema
Object
Year
1880-2018
Movement
Arts & Crafts
Movement - Punk
Movement -
Modern DIY
1940s -1950s Home
Improvement
Punk Movement
Media Type
JPEG MP4 PDF

13. Interface Issues
• Formatting digital
collection to appear as
icons
• Limited HTML
optimization
• Doesn’t play
videos/audio right from
the Omeka page

14. Archival Collection