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Project Arc-hive creates an open source digital platform that -aggregates, preserves, publishes, distributes and contextualizes a -variety of information, knowledge and documentation on art with a focus -on biomedia, ensuring open access to a variety of users, and a wide -outreach of digital materials across cultural sectors and -territories. 

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Arc-hive addresses the challenges of creating and distributing -cohesive digitization and dissemination protocols through a centralized -digital space where knowledge and best practices relevant to art -predominantly using biological materials are collected. Created through -collaboration of six partners working in NGO and museum sector, -publishing, and IT and audio-visual field, the platform as the main -project result serves as a catalysation tool for the activities of -artwork and museum specimen digitization, archiving and distribution; -remote event participation, planning and realization; augmented -publishing; staff and student education and training; and topic -contextualization and interconnection. 

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Aimed at building capacities of various cultural agents working with -biological and living materials, the project provides a feasible and -tailor made digital solution to some issues fundamental to the field, -following philosophical principles of open data and -information sharing in all project phases. 

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Arc-hive was born out of a collaboration between Cultivamos -Cultura (PT) with KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art -praxis (HR), Suomen biotaiteen seura ry foreningen for biokonst i -Finland foundation (FI), Zavod za kulturo, umetnost -In izobraževanje Kersnikova (SI), Hangar – Fundació Privada -AAVC (ES) and Institut Royal Des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (BE).

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