I don’t know. Items like this make me wonder about science and technology in the service of art: Death row inmate gives his body to art Pickled sharks were a challenge. This little news item from The Art Newspaper kinda made me feel like losing my breakfast. User-generated content taken to the extreme?
It’s time for a rant about Unicode. This, as some of us know (and nobody should have to know) is a way of encoding characters such that every character in every language in the world (and lots more, besides) has its own unique computer name, and thus, no matter what written languages I think my [...]
I have been over my head in recent months working on grant proposals and the like. Among our major projects (my head hurts to have to say, “among” our major projects) we are working on an online archive for oral histories. You’d think that this would be no big deal. We should be able to [...]
What a week. And I can’t even claim to be at WebWise, the place I would rather be right now, but for having my travel curtailed temporarily for too much fun. First, I should mention that I am a person who loves live music, but averages about one live performance, be it symphony or klezmer [...]
We are two weeks away from an annual techie migration called DrupalCon. This year it takes place in my town, Boston, so I am especially interested. I am also pleased that we’re garnering some local bragging rights once registration leapt passed last year’s Barcelona DrupalCon weeks ago and may even max out very soon. If [...]
Dear Santa, As I mentioned when we met last weekend at the Shopping Mall, I have been extraordinarily good this year so here is my Christmas List. I have to say you don’t look anything like Tim Allen, and you really should get a grip on your brother Fred. Anyway here’s my list: An OC-3072 [...]
Film preservationists take note! This is what can happen to *your collection* if the proper precautionary steps are not performed! Consider yourself forewarned – duhduhduh!! “What survived, survived piecemeal,” according to Sky Hepburn, who calls herself a ‘film preservationist’ even though, strictly speaking, there is no ‘film’ left to preserve. “We work with a variety [...]
We have a digital preservation initiative (in its infancy) to establish a Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) for our digital resources and data. If you’re not familiar with these terms check out these links: http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/tutorial/dpm/eng_index.html http://www.rlg.org/longterm/ http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attributes01.pdf Essentially its about ensuring that your grandchildren who have continued on in the museum-profession family business can access and [...]
There’s plenty of discussion on the issue of Digital Asset Management, largely about how different institutions are doing it, tips, advice, etc. Here at the Getty we’re currently embroiled in what it means to set up a Trusted Digital Repository or Digital Preservation System, which is not just the issue of managing our assets but [...]
Today I attended the New Media and Social Memory Symposium on preserving digital art and culture at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives. This symposium was less about immediate practical solutions and more about the need to shift current art preservation paradigms from static to dynamic models. The common thread about this necessary [...]
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