Archive of the Digital Present is a pilot project to explore and establish descriptive processes, interface designs, and tools for discovering and presenting born-digital AV (audio and video) recordings of literary events online. This user-centered exploration will focus on literary events that have been forced to move online (via teleconferencing platforms) since March 2020, due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Archive of the Digital Present is committed to a collaborative, user-centered approach to design, exploring Participatory Design methods in the elaboration of the tool and the interface. For this reason, your participation in the process is essential to generate information that will both feed and guide our iterative design process.