Meta-design approaches to indexing digital media

The contemporary burgeoning usage of digital media – videos, audio and photographs – and media distribution through networks both electronic and physical, will be considered in the context of a convergence of these media with a contemporary and popular interest in personal and community history. I will outline some research that seeks to develop tools for storing and retrieving audio-visual digital media whilst accommodating the perceived needs of the ‘memory worker’, both amateur and professional, whether as an individual, or a closed or open group.