{
  "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": "palace32-faces",
      "file": "facepick.GIF",
      "mediaType": "image/gif",
      "width": 88,
      "height": 110,
      "sha256": "c9b7d941cda3dbf99ee2fa623d2c82fe410700ecccaa9c4fdf29898034b51927",
      "classification": "Preserved Palace32 client artwork matched to embedded resource",
      "sourceCollection": "Preserved palace35.zip package",
      "evidence": "Exact SHA-256 match between the catalogued 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,
      "relatedAuthorship": {
        "suppliedBy": "Jim Bumgardner",
        "suppliedOn": "2026-09-12",
        "account": "Jim recalls creating the original Palace smiley faces used through at least 1997, but is unsure about the 2000 version.",
        "exactResourceIdentified": false,
        "displayPermissionEstablished": false,
        "sourceNote": "museum.html#source-early-artwork"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "smiley",
      "file": "smiley.GIF",
      "mediaType": "image/gif",
      "width": 44,
      "height": 44,
      "sha256": "0a7323b997388ce41277d11c59d5481f2a7af6eb49c4abf2f66cdca4b971911b",
      "classification": "Preserved Palace32 client artwork matched to embedded resource",
      "sourceCollection": "Preserved palace35.zip package",
      "evidence": "Exact SHA-256 match between the catalogued 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,
      "relatedAuthorship": {
        "suppliedBy": "Jim Bumgardner",
        "suppliedOn": "2026-09-12",
        "account": "Jim recalls creating the original Palace smiley faces used through at least 1997, but is unsure about the 2000 version.",
        "exactResourceIdentified": false,
        "displayPermissionEstablished": false,
        "sourceNote": "museum.html#source-early-artwork"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "the-gate",
      "file": "apalgrib.gif",
      "mediaType": "image/gif",
      "width": 512,
      "height": 384,
      "sha256": "93570074f42bdc29394df92c8d15292b699eb132f6cecc757ad6e29e0b36e018",
      "classification": "Recovered room background",
      "sourceCollection": "Avatar Palace Time Machine collection",
      "evidence": "SHA-256 matches the preserved room collection manifest.",
      "creator": null,
      "creationDate": null,
      "rights": "Displayed as a recovered Avatar Palace room background at the collection owner’s request. Original creator and reuse rights remain unconfirmed; rights remain with their respective holders. This display does not grant a reuse licence.",
      "alterations": "None. Original file copied byte for byte. No avatar, chat or prop layers added.",
      "publicDisplay": true
    }
  ],
  "updated": "2026-09-12"
}