UPDATES FROM THE ARCHIVERSE…
Preserving your Blockdown creations for future generations
Wondering what happens to your Blockdown creations once they have been ‘archived’? Olivia Northrop, Archives Assistant (Digital), tells us more! At East Riding Archives, we hold over 150,000 digital files. Just as we care for the physical items in our collection, we care for our digital ones too. We store these items in a ‘Digital…
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Watch our video from ‘Digitally Democratising Archives’ event
We were thrilled to present on the East Riding Blockdown at The Audience Agency’s ‘Digitally Democratising Archives’ project dissemination event on Monday 30th May (held via Zoom). This was an opportunity for us to highlight the inspiring contributions from our history-making participants (thank you all for your creations!) and what the Archiverse, our growing Minecraft…
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Digitally Democratising Archives event
Author’s edit 31 May 2022- this event has now passed. You can watch a recording of the event in our blog post “Watch our video from ‘Digitally Democratising Archives’ event“ We are delighted to show off our Archiverse world at a free webinar next week (Monday 30 May 2022). Everyone is welcome! The Audience Agency,…
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Bringing Blockdown to School
On the 22nd March 2022 we were honoured to bring the East Riding Blockdown to Springhead Primary School in Anlaby. This delightful group of pupils enthusiastically explored the virtual Treasure House together in multiplayer, and worked on their written and built creations based on their experiences of lockdown. Whilst learning about the East Riding Archives,…
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Project Contributions now on the Archives Catalogue
Spread the word far and wide- the East Riding Blockdown project catalogue is now available for browsing! Written and built creations contributed in February 2022 are now searchable on our Archives Online Catalogue under the collections reference ERBP. What is the catalogue? Our archive catalogue can help you search what documents we hold in our…
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Archiverse Minecraft: Creations Showcase (February 2022)
What a fun half term week we had, and we hope you enjoyed it too! The East Riding Archives and Bridlington Central Library were our history-making venues for our fully-booked (wow!) Archiverse Minecraft events across February half term, and we are delighted to present to you our videos and photographs showing off your magnificent Minecraft…
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Community Feature: Maisie’s Experiences
Maisie recently joined our online Archiverse server, a multiplayer map open 24/7 to East Riding-based Minecrafters. Check out her lockdown story recreated as a minecart journey! Screenshots and the above video of Maisie’s creation will be catalogued and preserved in our archives for future generations under the reference ERBP. Thank you Maisie- you are now…
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Bridlington hosts the Archiverse
Bridlington Central Library played fantastic host for our history-making Archiverse Minecraft events on two dates across February half term, 19th and 23rd February. Our Archiverse Minecraft events across half term were an opportunity for youths to contribute their COVID-19 experiences to the East Riding Archives by using our equipment at a local venue, such as…
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Community Feature: Participant 4’s Experiences
Participant 4, age 15, has built an ingenious creation on our online, multiplayer Archiverse server which will be catalogued and preserved in our archives for future generations under the reference ERBP. Participant 4 tells us that they studied an online tutorial over lockdown showing them how to build a stool. This challenging build reproduces the…
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Community Feature: Participant 3’s Experiences
Our Participant 3, age 12, has built us two brilliant creations on our online, multiplayer Archiverse server which will be catalogued and preserved in our archives for future generations under the reference ERBP. These creations visualised lockdown as feeling like being inside an ‘indestructible prison slowly drowning’. During lockdown they also lifted weights to pass…
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