{
  "title": "Avatar Palace Museum — faces, rooms and software",
  "catalogued": "2026-09-11",
  "affiliation": "Independent Avatar Palace collection; no museum endorsement or affiliation implied.",
  "records": [
    {
      "id": "palace-beginnings",
      "file": "palace-proposal-1994.jpeg",
      "width": 640,
      "height": 480,
      "mediaType": "image/jpeg",
      "creator": "Jim Bumgardner",
      "creationDate": "July 1994",
      "sourceCollection": "Jim Bumgardner’s Palace history collection",
      "source": "https://jbum.com/history/",
      "classification": "Concept illustration accompanying the original Palace proposal",
      "sha256": "765f424c8746460050404af7a90ea4f332e58a056de3bca4f5c8dd1ce20c9b47",
      "publicDisplay": true,
      "rights": "Jim Bumgardner approved the requested unchanged public museum display with a historical caption and source link on September 11, 2026. Not a general reuse licence.",
      "attribution": {
        "suppliedBy": "Jim Bumgardner",
        "suppliedOn": "2026-09-11",
        "account": "Jim identified the illustration as his own concept drawing."
      },
      "alterations": "None. Original image bytes retained."
    },
    {
      "id": "faces",
      "file": "palacechat-nino-smileys.png",
      "originalFilename": "smileys.png",
      "mediaType": "image/png",
      "width": 585,
      "height": 720,
      "sha256": "9bd919f36b0d09b89f386429a815dfafd2edb4fb611e454b3560a134efc1dcb6",
      "classification": "Preserved Palace Chat smiley artwork; owner-supplied attribution",
      "creator": "Nino",
      "intendedClient": "Palace Chat",
      "attribution": {
        "suppliedBy": "Avatar Palace collection owner",
        "suppliedOn": "2026-09-11",
        "account": "The owner identified Nino as artist and Palace Chat as the intended client, and said these were favourites they kept.",
        "independentlyCorroborated": false
      },
      "creationDate": null,
      "sourceCollection": "AvatarPalaceBackup_2026-01-23",
      "rights": "Image not published in this release. Reuse permission is not established by the available record; rights remain with the respective holder.",
      "alterations": "None. Original PNG copied byte for byte under a descriptive exhibit filename.",
      "publicDisplay": false
    },
    {
      "id": "palace32-faces",
      "file": "facepick.GIF",
      "mediaType": "image/gif",
      "width": 88,
      "height": 110,
      "sha256": "c9b7d941cda3dbf99ee2fa623d2c82fe410700ecccaa9c4fdf29898034b51927",
      "classification": "Original Palace32 client artwork matched to embedded resource",
      "sourceCollection": "AVP Server 1 / web/downloads/old/palace35.zip",
      "evidence": "Exact SHA-256 match between the exhibited GIF and the embedded GIF resource in the preserved version 3.5.0.211 program. Its accompanying README identifies version 3.5 and February 2000.",
      "creator": null,
      "creationDate": null,
      "rights": "Image not published in this release. Reuse permission is not established by the available record; rights remain with the respective holder.",
      "alterations": "None. Original GIF copied byte for byte; enlargement uses pixelated display.",
      "clientVersionEvidence": "PALACE32.EXE from PalaceUserWin.exe reports version 3.5.0.211 and company Communities.com; extracted CRC-32 matches the stored archive checksum.",
      "authentication": "Matched directly to the preserved executable resource. This confirms the image belongs to that client; it does not establish a verified publisher signature, individual artist, first artwork date or first-ever Palace use.",
      "publicDisplay": false
    },
    {
      "id": "smiley",
      "file": "smiley.GIF",
      "mediaType": "image/gif",
      "width": 44,
      "height": 44,
      "sha256": "0a7323b997388ce41277d11c59d5481f2a7af6eb49c4abf2f66cdca4b971911b",
      "classification": "Original Palace32 client artwork matched to embedded resource",
      "sourceCollection": "AVP Server 1 / web/downloads/old/palace35.zip",
      "evidence": "Exact SHA-256 match between the exhibited GIF and the embedded GIF resource in the preserved version 3.5.0.211 program. Its accompanying README identifies version 3.5 and February 2000.",
      "creator": null,
      "creationDate": null,
      "rights": "Image not published in this release. Reuse permission is not established by the available record; rights remain with the respective holder.",
      "alterations": "None. Original GIF copied byte for byte; enlargement uses pixelated display.",
      "clientVersionEvidence": "PALACE32.EXE from PalaceUserWin.exe reports version 3.5.0.211 and company Communities.com; extracted CRC-32 matches the stored archive checksum.",
      "authentication": "Matched directly to the preserved executable resource. This confirms the image belongs to that client; it does not establish a verified publisher signature, individual artist, first artwork date or first-ever Palace use.",
      "publicDisplay": false
    },
    {
      "id": "the-gate",
      "file": "apalgrib.gif",
      "mediaType": "image/gif",
      "width": 512,
      "height": 384,
      "sha256": "93570074f42bdc29394df92c8d15292b699eb132f6cecc757ad6e29e0b36e018",
      "classification": "Recovered room background",
      "sourceCollection": "Avatar Palace Time Machine — Milestone 2 Prop Recovery",
      "evidence": "SHA-256 matches the supplied PRESERVATION.md manifest.",
      "creator": null,
      "creationDate": null,
      "rights": "Image not published in this release. Reuse permission is not established by the available record; rights remain with the respective holder.",
      "alterations": "None. Original file copied byte for byte. No avatar, chat or prop layers added.",
      "publicDisplay": false
    }
  ]
}