That's a good question. It currently lives in two copies, one via dropbox.com with a public access link, the other via the Twine game sharing platform, [[philome.la|http://www.philome.la/]].\n\nThe basic function of computation is the ability to make copies. Digital sustainability is about having multiple copies. But the trajectory right now is for walled gardens, platform dependent sharing. The internet, the web, is changing underneath us (Doctorow, [[the War on General Purpose Computing)|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg]]. I release PARKER into the internet, where it will either be copied and survive, or it will be ignored and will die. That too is part of the rhetoric of digital code with which PARKER engages.\n\nSometimes, [[digital things wither away|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot]] Sometimes, they are actively [[killed|http://electricarchaeology.ca/2012/05/18/how-i-lost-the-crowd-a-tale-of-sorrow-and-hope/]]. \n\n[[So how did you make it?]]

<h2>Paradata for [[Heritage Jam|http://www.heritagejam.org]]</h2>\n<i>Why?</i>\n\nThere is shared authority here. It is buried deeply within the coding, within the rhetoric of what is <i>easy</i> to do, technically, versus what <i>ought</i> to be done. PARKER uncovers this.\n\n[[how?]]

1. Download [[archaeological videos]] from youtube using an automatic pattern [[matching script|https://github.com/antiboredom/videogrep/blob/master/tools/video_downloader.py]].\n2. [[Download the associated closed-captioning|http://keepsubs.com/]] for those videos.\n3. [[Automatically generate a supercut|http://lav.io/2014/06/videogrep-automatic-supercuts-with-python/]] by pattern matching for the regular express 'dig|bur'. The resulting video clips any portion where dig, digital, digging ... and so on, and buried, burials, burying... and so on, and stitches them together. The result is oracular, with phrases repeating and building, and quite by accident (or was it ghost in the machine?) Tony begins to yell, an ecstasy of 'do you know where to dig?!'\n4. Take the resulting transcript, and [[feed it into the patent generator|http://lav.io/2014/05/transform-any-text-into-a-patent-application/]]. The patent generator pattern matches for phrases that match real patent language. The result is a mimicry/mockery of digital rights management, a comment on the corportization/neoliberal agenda to cultural heritage.\n5. The experience is wrapped within [[Twine|http://twinery.org/]], an interactive fiction storytelling platform. It is facebook, it is google scholar, with the pretty gui stripped. \n\n(I did use stylesheets for this paradata document from [[Glorious Trainwrecks|http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/5163]]).\n\nNow- [[Invoke Procedural Archaeology Responsive Knowledge Engine Responder!|http://www.philome.la/electricarchaeo/proceduralarchaeology/play]]

[[Ancient Roman Skulls Found in Underground London Construction Site|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r_0em1s7yE]]\n[[Bettany Hughes Video Diary|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5VlW5z3Kf4]]\n[[Ruth Tringham summing up the burials at Catal Hoyuk in 2000|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9mVkzDUdqQ]]\n[[Crossrail Archaeology Charterhouse Square Skeletons Confirmed as Black Death Victims|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPdcTT_Evps]]\n[[Mystery Skeleton Mystifies Archaeologists|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DP_WjswBWw]]\n[[Slave Quarters Excavation at James Madison's Montpelier|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q12ro2xvawQ]]\n[[Time Team Rooting for Romans|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxwhUuNBdm0]]\n[[Woking Palace Archaeological dig|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Sq_9vIT00]]\n\nI believe that my algorithmic use of these videos constitutes [[fair use|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use]].\n\n"ok", you say, "Remind me. [[So how did you make it?]]"

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This visualization is an interactive story that frames an algorithmic engagement with archaeological search results to highlight the ways code can frame archaeological knowledge. It applies [[Sam Lavigne’s|http://lav.io/]] ‘videogrep’ and ‘automatic patent generator’ to results from a search for ‘archaeological burials’ retrieved from Youtube, selecting the first few results that included closed-captioning. Videogrep uses natural-language pattern matching on the closed-captioning files to select clips from a variety of pieces, restitching them at random. The result is similar to an [[I-Ching|http://www.ichingonline.net/index.php]] or other ways of divination of meaning (see also Nick Montfort on [[Riddles and text adventures|http://nickm.com/twisty/]]). Similarly, the patent generator grabs the transcription so that elements that fit the language of patent applications. [[As I have argued elsewhere|http://electricarchaeology.ca/2012/11/22/deformative-digital-archaeology/]], digital archaeology is not about justification of results, but rather, the deformation of the familiar (see also [[Trevor Owens on discovery versus justification|http://www.trevorowens.org/2012/11/discovery-and-justification-are-different-notes-on-sciencing-the-humanities/]]).\n\n"Curious", you think. "But [[how sustainable, how accessible]] is this?"

<i>PARKER is an interactive experience in procedurally extracting, uncovering, and reversing, the burial of latent semantic core archaeological knowledge. </i>\n\n<b>PARKER: for the archaeology we always dreamed of</b>.\n\n[[read the fine print]]\nor\n[[Invoke Procedural Archaeology Responsive Knowledge Engine Responder|http://www.philome.la/electricarchaeo/proceduralarchaeology/play]]\n\n\n

PARKER PARADATA

[[Shawn Graham|http://twitter.com/electricarchaeo]]

You look at the fine print.\n \n<i>In this era of neoliberal corporatization of cultural heritage knowledge, PARKER represents the way forward for its creation and appreciation.</i> \n\n"hmmm". Perhaps you should read some [[more]]\n\n

<i>When we must balance funding for healthcare versus that for archaeologists, in this time of reduced availability of funds, how can we not turn to data mining and revisualization of knowledge? After all, what is the insight of the individual when millions of minutes of youtube videos are being created every minute? Further, PARKER extracts the core insights of archaeology and formats them automatically for patenting, so that DRM can be affixed and rightsholder value be fully realized.</i>\n\n"Yep, seems like something austerity-minded folks might say." you think to yourself.\n\n[[Invoke Procedural Archaeology Responsive Knowledge Engine Responder|http://www.philome.la/electricarchaeo/proceduralarchaeology/play]]\n\nA little way further down the page, you see a tab, under-emphasized, probably little-clicked:\n\n[[Open Paradata]]