Trans-Pe/ar(man)ent engage virtualization as a preservation strategy to create an open, sustainable, collaborative infrastructure in an extensive art museum

Abstract

Abstract – this paper briefly describes the establishment of a digital archival infrastructure to preserve one artwork from the late 90’s and a complete artist archive. Within those digital preservation processes an accessible, transparent and sustainable infrastructure will be designed, implemented and evaluated, fitting the existing collection management structure. The most critical point is building a system relying on open source software in an institutional environment without dedicated knowledge and experience. While building, testing and integrating the Linux working station to virtualize and transform those artworks it is confirmed that this is an efficient method to built transparent institutional capacities and capabilities.

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Creators
Almut Schilling; Franziska Butze-Rios Butze-Rios
Institutions
aBITpreservation; Donau-Universität Krems Austria
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Keywords
software-based artwork; digital sustainability; virtualization; open source; cooperation
Publication Type
paper
License
CC BY 4.0 International
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