This is an interactive digital diagram built with D3.js that models an “archival ecology” of a specific television episode reconstruction (“The Tenth Planet, Episode 4” from Doctor Who). Instead of treating the archive as a static list or database, it turns archival elements into a living network of nodes (things like broadcast 1966, fan audio recording, missing master tape, BBC animation team) connected by links.
These nodes are not just items—they are positioned in a conceptual space defined by four axes: temporal (time), institutional (BBC, fans, production), affective (feelings like nostalgia or loss), and material (physical or digital media like tapes or tele-snaps).
Audiences function as informal custodians of television memory, but archival ontologies based on listing and classification fail to fully register this custodial role.