Digital Preservation: Recording the Recoding. The Documentary Strategy

The hypothesis of this article is that improved efforts to preserve new media art works will be insufficient without the support of structured documentation.

Documentation of both the works and the context in which they evolve must be seen as fundamental factors of conservation. In fact, if we take into account the huge volatility, for example, of certain online projects, it is more than likely that in many cases this documentation will soon be the only remaining trace of the work. What will give real value to a collection of digital art is documentation, meta-data, contextualization, and guaranteed long term access to that documentation. (...)

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