Where Collections Become Archives
Arcora helps artists, cultural organizations, and institutions assess, organize, and activate their archival collections.
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Archival Collection Assessment
A professional evaluation of a collection to identify preservation needs, organization strategies, and archival priorities.
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Collection Processing Roadmap
A strategic plan to organize and manage archival materials following professional archival standards.
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Digitization and Applied Metadata
Digitization of analog materials and development of structured metadata to create a usable digital archive.
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Archive Activation and Storytelling
Oral histories, documentary films, and creative storytelling projects developed from archival collections.
Why Archives Matter
Every career produces an archive — whether it’s preserved intentionally or left scattered across studios, storage units, hard drives, and boxes.
Photographs, recordings, notebooks, contracts, and correspondence accumulate over decades of creative work.
Without structure, these materials become difficult to preserve, understand, or access.
Arcora helps transform collections into organized archives that support preservation, research, storytelling, and future creative projects.
About
Daryl Faulkner | Founder
“An archive is where history becomes accessible.”
Daryl Faulkner is an archival strategist and cultural heritage advisor who helps artists, companies, and cultural organizations transform their collections into organized, accessible archives. His work focuses on assessing complex collections, developing archival roadmaps, and implementing processing and digitization programs that preserve decades of creative and institutional history.
Before founding Arcora, Daryl served as an Account Director at Heritage Werks, where he partnered with Fortune 50 organizations and family estates to develop long-term archival strategies and activate historically significant collections. His work helped organizations move from scattered storage and unprocessed materials to structured archives that support research, storytelling, exhibitions, and brand heritage initiatives.
Earlier in his career, Daryl worked in the music industry with both independent and major record labels in roles spanning artist development, marketing, and partnerships. That experience continues to shape his approach today, particularly in his work with musicians, performers, and creative communities whose personal collections document important cultural moments.
Based in Portland, Oregon, he works with clients across North America to guide the long-term stewardship of legacy collections.