Preservation and Access Framework for Digital Art Objects

Using the interactive born-digital artworks in Cornell's Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art as a test bed, this 2-year research and development project aims to create a metadata framework that does the following:

• preserve complex digital art objects in a large-scale digital repository 
• provide researchers with the best possible access to them, even when full rendering may be impossible
• document new research into digital preservation methods for future archives and curators.

Preservation & Access Framework for Digital Art Objects will help cultural and educational institutions broaden and sustain community access to an increasingly significant, yet challenging area of our cultural heritage. It will promote interdisciplinary learning, teaching, research, and cultural practice across the fields of art, art history, information science, comparative literature, media culture, visual studies, performing arts, anthropology, and digital humanities.  The preservation model developed will apply not merely to new media artworks, but to other rich digital media environments.