This webinar focuses on the audiovisual preservation efforts at the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals within the larger context of an institution that is transitioning from an active operating court to an archive. David Rowntree speaks about the digital preservation system that has recently been acquired (early stages of implementation), the Tribunal’s requirements for the system, and the …
FREEZE! A manifesto for safeguarding and preserving born-digital heritage
Finding ways to preserve born-digital heritage has become a matter of urgency and growing concern. Websites, games and interactive documentaries each bring specific challenges that need to be addressed. It takes three to tango: Ensuring that our digital lives and digital creativity are not lost to future generations requires a joint effort by the principal players: creators, heritage professionals and …
Collecting and Conserving Net Art – Moving Beyond Conventional Methods
Collecting and Conserving Net Art explores the qualities and characteristics of net art and its influence on conservation practices. By addressing and answering some of the challenges facing net art and providing an exploration of its intersection with conservation, the book casts a new light on net art, conservation, curating and museum studies. Viewing net art as a process rather …
The Game-shaped Archive: A Playful, Flexible Approach to the Preservation of Computer Games
Over the past decades computer games have become an established part of a rapidly transforming media landscape. As such they cannot be ignored by cultural heritage institutions. The ephemeral and interactive qualities of games do require a varied and flexible approach to their preservation. Various methods of preservation must be combined in order to do justice to the various aspects …
IASA-TC 06 Guidelines for the Preservation of Video Recordings
Archives hold original video recordings in a range of types, from media-dependent, carrier-based analogue videotapes to computer-file-based digital recordings. The appropriate preservation treatments for this array reflect the variation in the source recordings. For analogue videotapes, for example, digitisation is called for. Meanwhile, examples of digital file-based recording may require rewrapping into a fresh file “wrapper” or a combination of digital transcoding and rewrapping. When …
Future Proof – End Reporting
For the FUTURE PROOF MEDIA ART project, LIMA’s research team of art conservation, documentation, technology, digital engineering, and sound and video production experts have worked in collaboration with Dutch media artist Geert Mul to conduct a large-scale investigation into documentation and preservation approaches of complex software-based and interactive media artworks in order to define an artwork script to guide future …