The Arkly.io concept is the outcome of several years of archival science research and development carried out by @peterVG.
2005 - University of Amsterdam PhD research question: Can the integration of institutional archival collections with personal digital archives create new or enhanced collective memories? If so, how?
2007 - Opening thesis chapters to define the domain of archives access systems
2005 - 2007 - Define requirements for institutional archives system.
Create concept diagram to aid in system requirements and software architecture decisions:
2007 - Create an archives access system for institutions. Release it as free and open-source software to encourage adoption and mutual shared benefits: ICA-AtoM
2009 - Present findings of the ICA-AtoM prototyping work as a paper at the Association of Brazilian Archivists conference in Rio de Janiero.
2009 - Transition my consulting practice Artefactual Systems to a software development and maintenance firm to support users of AccessToMemory.org
2009 - Begin research and development for a "back-end" digital preservation component to integrate with AtoM.
2010 - Introduce the Archivematica vision and roadmap as a paper at the 7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPres) in Vienna, Austria
2012 - Report on Archivematica project milestones in a paper at the 10th iPres conference.
2016 - Research the potential value of blockchain technology for use in archives management software. Report on early findings to the Australian Record-Keeping Roundtable.
2016 - Publish the "Decentralized Autonomous Collections" Medium article to present the concept of self-sustaining, non-institutional archival collections.
2016 - Contextualize my research and development on archives access systems against the wider backdrop of technology and innovation as a plenary address to the Association of Canadian Archivists' conference in Montreal, Canada.
2022 - Landano: improving land records to fight poverty
2023 - Orcfax - the trust machine revisited
2024 - Arkly.io
