Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to February - Preserving our Online Heritage.

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>

It is something that concerns me greatly.  I wonder if there needs to be a
sort of data based smithsonian......There are those odd old dormant sites
left floating in cyber space like junk in outer orbits from outdmoded
satellites.......and so many projects made on older machines now seen as
so distant and quaint......green screen monitors anyone?

There could even be various forms of navigation for
visitors...chronological paths as well as content and theme
based.........take work from the larger collection and alternate
retrospective "shows"  with different groupings as constuction.  The
appeal would be on several levels to several audiences and would also have
a space for storage of many more projects...........


















To save or not to save?
>
> This is a perennial  question when faced with a massive expanse of online
> data and limited resources with which to do it. The preservation of
> contemporary media art works presents an enormous challenge to collectors
> and museums, most of whom are still attempting to fit these diverse
> practices into their rationales and exhibition strategies. Unfortunately
> in
> the art world acquisition and conservation measures are only happening in
> small pockets,  despite the plethora of entertaining, challenging and
> innovative online works produced over the past decade.
>
> However there is hope. Some of the leaders in preservation of internet art
> are not in fact art institutions, but libraries and internet archival
> projects, for whom collection, archiving and preservation is a routine
> matter. As more of their collections become digital, they have been
> actively
> addressing issues like storage, migration and emulation.
>
> This month we welcome our panel of International experts from the archival
> field:
>
> ---> Margaret Phillips, Paul Koerbin and Gerard Clifton from the PANDORA
> internet archive and PADI gateway at the National Library of Australia;
> ---> Nancy McGovern, Digital Preservation Officer at Cornell University
> Library;
> ---> Michele Kimpton of the Internet Archive with its consultant sage the
> WayBack Machine;
> ---> Sharmin (Tinni) Choudhury, the software engineer for PANIC digital
> preservation project;
> ---> Meta data standards expert Dr Simon Pockley from Flight of Ducks and
> Deakin University; and
> ---> Luciana Duranti (UBC), Yvette Hackett and Jim Suderman from
> InterPARES
> 2, Canada.
>
> We will also be joined by those concerned specifically with net art:
> --->  New York-based artist and writer Kevin McGarry who manages Rhizome
> Artbase - the worlds largest collection of networked media containing over
> 1400 net.art works;
>  --->  and artist Graham Crawford, who curated two of Australia's earliest
> net art shows, Tool1 and Tool 2.0b in 1995 and 1996, which are no longer
> online.
>
>
> Please enjoy and feel free to jump into this discussion on  the
> tenuousness
> and a tenacity of networked histories and records, the critical
> distinction
> between object and events based archiving and what happens to an archive
> when funding disappears?
>
>
> ___________archival project urls:
>
> Internet Archive and WayBack Machine: http://www.archive.org/
>
> InterPARES 2 (IP2)- International Research on Permanent Authentic Records
> in
> Electronic Systems: http://www.interpares.org/welcome.cfm
>
> Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI):
> http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/
>
> PANDORA Australia's Web Archive: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/.
>
> PANIC - Preservation webservices Architecture for Newmedia and Interactive
> Collections: http://www.metadata.net/panic/
>
> Virtual Remote Control (VRC) at Cornell University:
> http://irisresearch.library.cornell.edu/VRC/index.html
>
>
> ________ online art urls:
>
> Flight of Ducks - a personal preservation project
> http://www.duckdigital.net/FOD/FOD0292.html
>
> Rhizome ArtBase: http://rhizome.org/art
>
> Tool1 and Tool 2.0b are no longer online, however we are attempting to
> reconstruct them before the end of the month.
>
>
> Dr Melinda Rackham
> artist | curator | producer
> www.subtle.net/empyre
> -empyre-  media forum
>
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