[-empyre-] archiving + preservation

[jonCates <joncates@criticalartware.net>]

blithe riley (criticalartware coreDeveloper) has [strong/important] 
[positions/ideas] [on/about] archiving + preservation in relation to 
criticalartware. hopefully, when she has availability, blithe will be 
able to comment directly on criticalartware's approach to 
preservation + archiving.

generally speaking, criticalartware agreed early on to avoid a 
repository function. others exist such as

Runme.org
http://runme.org/

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selectparks.net
http://selectparks.net/

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freshmeat's ArtisticSoftware section
http://freshmeat.net/browse/901/?topic_id=901

among others (mini of which are listed as open ports + dynamic link 
libraries on the 1rst screen of http://www.criticalartware.net). we 
were interested not in reproducing those [logics/efforts] but rather 
in building an [application/platform] that was framed historically, 
focused on generating discourse + dedicated to [ideas/approaches] 
such as [software-as-art/art-as-software].

the interviews + conversations we have w/people who are involved in 
formative + early moments of Video Art, artware + code based 
theorypraxis are archived in a variety of formats (text, audio + 
video). related materials (such as the Distribution Religion by Dan 
Sandin, Phil Morton + the community of Image Processor developers) 
are also hosted [in/on] criticalartware. hosting these materials 
connects us to other preservationist strategies + functions such as

The Video History Project by Sherry Miller Hocking, Mona Jimenez + Dave Jones
http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/history/

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The Early Video Project by Davidson Gigliotti
http://www.davidsonsfiles.org/

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AudioVisualizers' ToolShack
http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/toolshak.html

to name a few (which again are also listed as open ports + dynamic 
link libraries on the 1rst screen of http://www.criticalartware.net)

now, w/the introduction of liken, we have opened the possibility of 
textual archiving, hyperlinking + pathbuilding to anyOne who chooses 
to participate + widened the parameters of what may be 
[included/preserved/archived].

as bensyverson wrote about open.src'ing the code, we continually 
(re)evaluate these possibilities + in the case of preserving + 
archiving discuss potential [shifts/patterns].
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//jonCates
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