Niche collections project

Goals and problem solving / Methods / Features / Case studies / Software application / Master-class

Cushion cover, ca. 1600, British, The MET Open Access Project

Niche collections project is dedicated to the use of niche and local collections of texts, visuals and objects in digital spaces. It focuses on analogies as a provider for digital spaces construction and circulation of information.

It describes niche, local and context collections as a material for digital twins industry, context search and digital market.

Niche data collections is an application of Hermenaria analogies search methods to software and physical storage, use and circulation of information.

A core goal of these application methods, sets of features and products is to increase and understand a relative value of information. This results in a focus on an application to an accurate situation, fluid and infinite states of use and context associations.

niche@hermenaria.com

Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf, Parthian, ca. 2nd–early 3rd century CE, From Mesopotamia, Hatra Culture. Medium Limestone, The MET Open Access Project