Lletherneuadd 2001 - tracking Sarah Jacob - Three Rooms

Traumwerk means dreamwork

- following connections, as in a dream.

This can be fascinating and enlightening.

And, like dreamwork, the experience can also be disorienting.

Traumwerk is a project of the Metamedia Lab in Stanford's Archaeology Center - specializing in the archaeological materiality of media, in the mediation, the documentation of remains of the past.

Disorienting - even more so given this subject of Traumwerk - ruined bits of the past, archaeological materials and experiences, entropy, detritus.

Even more so - like all archaeology and like all web sites, Traumwerk is a process rather than a product. It is always being re-constructed. Traumwerk is never more than work in progress. It tends to entropy and chaos. Layers of edits, versions, reworkings.

Traumwerk's technology is wiki software - a web-based authoring environment that enables the collaborative, fast and easy building of hypertext and hypermedia - linked pages of text, images, indeed any kind of digital content.

Some thoughts on the character of this non-linear, topological documentation -

>> Basic functions - wikis

>> Wiki guidelines

>> Design principles - archaeological poetics and creativity

>> Design philosophy - heretical empirics

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