Internet Archive wants your corner of the web to become a keepsake
Tapestries brings scattered media into a collaborative canvas that can be exported.
Saved links can point to a story without quite telling it. Internet Archive’s Tapestries announcement describes a different approach: arranging text, pictures, audio and video on a canvas people can explore, with optional collaboration, comments and copies.
Bob Stein and Dan Visel created the interface. The Archive’s October 29 post says it launched at an October 21 celebration, and projects can remain private or be shared publicly. The announcement presents it as a space for assembling digital material into something of your own.
The project need not stay inside the website. Director Ben Vershbow says users can export a complete tapestry in a ZIP file for deposit in the Archive. Washington State University Vancouver teacher Dene Grigar told the Archive she has already used Tapestries for students’ digital storytelling.