Software, archives, ethics.
Hello.
Welcome.
We're Deep Keep Ltd and we work on software, archives, and ethics.
We're new and already working on a handful of things:
- A method for recording how organisations think and remember. Not the official version, the real one.
- The graceful slow-down of a small nonprofit, done with care and intention.
- What a stubborn, small archiving institute might be like, and what it would need to survive for a long time.
- The shape of a distributed archival network, and whether it could hold together.
- A new protocol for writing instructions to the future; guidance for anyone who might one day steward your work, and
- What it might look like to bring digital legacy to the high street. Somewhere between a solicitor's office and a design studio, where ordinary people could walk in and sort out their digital lives.
Why are
we doing this?
The web was born in 1994. We’ve already lost a bunch of it. The wonderful Internet Archive is doing the majority of the archiving work today - holding over 1 trillion web pages, and all kinds of other media.
We think there is room for lots of different approaches to digital preservation and, in particular, the preservation of social media systems and active contemporary digital histories. A lot of the web is semi-private or dark, and therefore is also not being gathered by today’s archivists. There’s a lot of territory here that deserves attention, experimentation, and tooling.
That’s where we live.
Who we are
Deep Keep has grown out of the first chapter of Flickr.org. We're a team that’s spent years thinking about what people make online, what gets lost, what's worth keeping, and how to do that. So here we are.
Services we
can provide
- Design and strategy for online systems
- Prototyping exploratory collection management services
- Initial software product sketching
- Creating and facilitating enjoyable, detailed workshops
- Research and reporting
You can hire us.
Our Partners
A small network is twinkling. Researchers, archivists, lawyers, educators, engineers, policy people, and a few we can't quite categorise yet.
Contact us
Drop us a short message and we will get back to you.