Project / Digital archives

Digital Archive Platform

An adaptable platform concept for presenting cultural, creative and spatial collections through digital experiences.

Digital archive interface showing costume collection material

Overview

The Digital Archive Platform explores how fashion and costume, fine art, heritage, museum collections, education and creative practice can be documented and encountered online. It supports a range of media, from collection records and images to interactive 3D assets and exhibition-led experiences.

Approach

The work treats archiving as both preservation and interpretation. Structured collection information can sit alongside visual material, spatial or 3D representations, and pathways designed for students, researchers, audiences and creative practitioners.

Case studies

University of Salford Costume Archive and Fine Art archive work are presented as examples of archive-focused practice. The platform remains an adaptable concept rather than a claim of universal institutional deployment.

Related research

Spatial capture, Gaussian Splat workflows and the Virtual Fashion Catwalk pipeline inform how archive material can move into web, real-time and immersive contexts.

Artech Shadow Industries is an independent creative technology portfolio and is not an official University of Salford organisation. University-related projects are presented as examples of Glenn Watts’ professional, research and collaborative work.