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40YEARSVIDEOART.DE - PART 1 Digital Heritage: Video art in Germany from 1963 to the present
The initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation "40yearsvideoart.de: Digital Heritage" focuses on saving, maintaining, and mediating the cultural heritage of Video Art, which has become one the most influential art forms of the twentieth century. For the first time, such a complex, mediating and exhibiting project is carried out by five museums in the Federal Republic of Germany: ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and the K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf, the institutions responsible for the overall project, work together with three partners – Kunsthalle Bremen, Lenbachhaus Munich, and the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig.
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AktiveArchive
AktiveArchive is a project by the Hochschule der Künste Bern and the Schweizerischen Instituts für Kunstwissenschaft SIK-ISEA. Sicne 2002, the project investigates different possibilities in documenting, preservation and conservation of different media art forms. The research is based on cooperation and specific research projects (cases).
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Archipelproject
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BOM-Vlaanderen
The BOM-Vl project (Preservation and Distribution of Multimedia Data in Flanders) provides a platform for the storage and the release of the Flemish digital heritage. Broadcasters, cultural organizations, private individuals and government agencies posses thousands of hours of voice and video on analog carriers. It is essential to take the appropriate measures, in this case long-term preservation by digital storage, to prevent a quick decay of these audiovisual archives. Research topics within the project include user needs, archiving and selection, metadata standards and rights management. The project aims at education, the culture and heritage sector, media, science and interested individuals.
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EFG - The European Film Gateway
Initiated by ACE (Association des Cinémathèques Européennes) and the EDL Foundation, the EFG project will develop a portal providing direct access to about 790,000 digital objects including films, photos, posters, drawings, sound material and text documents. Content will be provided mostly by film archives and cinémathèques, which are partners in the project. The collections to be made accessible have been selected to serve as a sample representing the actual digitised content held in the film institutions. The project started in September 2008 and will run for three years.
The European Film Gateway portal will be linked to the Europeana portal, which is creating the European digital library, museum and archive, providing integrated access to digital treasures from museums, archives, audio-visual archives and libraries of Europe. By making its archival content available through the common interface of Europeana, EFG will contribute to fulfilling one of the major promises of an integrated digital environment: enabling users to search and retrieve different media via a single access point.
While developing the EFG portal service, the project will address a number of key issues for access to digital content, namely, technical and semantic interoperability, metadata standards, best practices for rights' clearance and IPR management of cinematographic works.
EFG is a Best Practice Network funded by the European Commission under the eContentplus programme, as part of the i2010 policy.
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Forging the Future: New Tools for Variable Media Preservation
Forging the Future: New Tools for Variable Media Preservation proposes a consortium of museums and cultural heritage organizations dedicated to exploring, developing, and sharing new vocabularies and tools for cultural preservation. This consortium will build upon innovative research developed in previous years by its members as part of the Variable Media Network (VMN) and Archiving the Avant-Garde working groups. The focus of this foundation phase was research into innovative preservation standards and strategies. The focus of Forging the Future is building tools written to those standards that help organizations choose among those strategies.
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GAMA - Gateway to Archives of Media Art
The interdisciplinary project GAMA – Gateway to Archives of Media Art was launched on 2007-11-01 by 19 participating organisations from Europe's culture, art and technology sector, with the aim to establish a central online portal to different European media art collections for the interested public, for curators, artists, academics, researchers, and mediators - an endeavour supported by European Commission within the framework of the econtentplus programme.
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Inside Installations: Preservation and Presentation of Installation Art
Inside Installations: Preservation and Presentation of Installation Art is a three-year research project (2004-2007) into the care and administration of an art form that is challenging prevailing views of conservation. Over thirty complex installations have been selected as case studies and will be re-installed, investigated and documented. Experience is shared and partners collaborate to develop good practice on five research topics.
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Matters in Media Art
Curators, conservators, registrars and media technical managers from New Art Trust, MoMA, SFMOMA and Tate formed a consortium in order to develop best practice guidelines on the care of time-based media works (such as video, film, dia, sound- and computer based installations. The website of Matters in Media Art offers extensive instruments, related to the exhibition of media art.
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PRACTICs of Contemporary Art: The Future
In PRACTICs (Practices, Research, Access, Collaboration, Teaching In Conservation of contemporary art), 34 leading European museums, institutions and universities join hands to assess and implement knowledge gained through European projects of the last decade. In addition, this project will set the course for key issues of conservation, preservation, education and public access to conservation.
The project is managed by the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN) and co-organised by five other European organisations that in turn collaborate with (national) partners.This group of co-organisers also collaborated on the successful project Inside Installations (2004-2007).
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PrestoPRIME
PrestoPRIME will research and develop practical solutions for the long-term preservation of digital media objects, programmes and collections, and find ways to increase access by integrating the media archives with European on-line digital libraries in a digital preservation framework. This will result in a range of tools and services, delivered through a networked Competence Centre.
PrestoPRIME is funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Program (FP7).
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Variable Media Network
The Variable Media Network proposes an unconventional new preservation strategy that has emerged from the Guggenheim’s efforts to preserve its world-renowned collection of conceptual, minimalist and video art and that is supported by the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology. The aim of this affiliation is to help build a network of organizations that will develop the tools, methods and standards needed to implement this strategy.
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Video Active
Video Active is a project funded within the eContentplus programme of the European Commission.
The major aim of Video Active is to create access to television archives across Europe. The unlocking of these (largely) closed archives will make their content available for educational and academic purposes. It will enable an interactive discovery of television's cultural heritage.
The project will achieve this by selecting 10,000 items of television archive content, which reflects the cultural and historical similarities and differences of television from across the European Union, and by complementing this archive content with well-defined contextual metadata.