README for an archival copy of the digital exhibition Red Thread: A Journey Through Color.

ABOUT THE PROJECT/WEBSITE
This site grew out of a course, The Global History of Color, taught by Vera Keller at the  
University of Oregon in 2018, tracing the global history of a range of natural reds, such as 
ochre, cinnabar, red lead, vermilion, dragon's blood, kermes, cochineal, madder, coral, red 
glass and enamels to the first synthetic dyes developed in the late nineteenth century. These 
pigments take us on a dramatic journey, criss-crossing the globe, from the furthest reaches of 
human history to contemporary Big Pharma. They offer a visual history of human exploitation 
of nature, as well as of attempts to surpass nature through art. You can follow this journey 
through the story map below, as well as through the digital exhibition of student research on 
objects drawn from University of Oregon collections, such as the Special Collections and 
University Archives, Knight Library and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History.
Elsewhere on the site, you can find additional resources for learning and teaching more using
the lens of the color red, from suggested further digital projects, secondary sources, rare
original works in Special Collection, and the physical collection of pigments and teaching aide,
the Traveling Scriptorium.      

Website URL: https://redthread.uoregon.edu/s/red-thread/page/welcome


ABOUT THE CAPTURE/ARCHIVAL COPY
This archival copy of the website was created by the UO Libraries Digital Scholarship 
Services Department to provide fully interactive, sustainable long-term access to a completed
website, given the ephemeral nature of the web.

It was created using Webrecorder, a free, open-source web archiving service created by Rhizome at the New Museum, funded by
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Knight Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Service.

The file type, WARC (Web ARChive) format specifies a method for combining multiple digital resources
into an aggregate archival file together with related information. It is used for web-accessible 
content in a final or archived state. 

WARC files are often compressed using gzip, resulting in a .warc.gz extension. 

See: https://webrecorder.io/


INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE
Users can access the archived website either online or offline, using the Webrecorder Player, 
a web or desktop application for Windows, OSX and Linux.

Find and install the latest release of the Webrecorder Player here:
https://github.com/webrecorder/webrecorderplayer-electron/releases/tag/v1.5.0

CONTACT
If you have questions or concerns please contact us at scholars@uoregon.edu