Project Goals:
  • Develop a comprehensive strategy for documenting and preserving variable and new media artworks. 

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  • Develop rules and schema for cataloging variable media art, in compliance with museum community standards and practice. 

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  • Develop rules and schema for capturing necessary preservation metadata at the time a variable media work is accessioned into a collection. 

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  • Test computer emulation as one component of an overall preservation strategy for digital art works. 

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  • Inform the above processes with the best possible museological, technical, and artistic expertise, as well as broad professional and public input. 


    • Document and disseminate the results of the above to the cultural heritage community, and train professionals to implement the resulting strategy..