Server backups → Archivematica (DRMC)
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
The Museum of Modern Art faced a serious and growing risk to its digital and time-based media art — the Film department alone holding an enormous volume of complex material — much of it on ordinary IT servers. Time-based works are not single files but ecosystems of interdependent software, formats and dependencies. MoMA deployed Archivematica as the engine of its Digital Repository for Museum Collections (DRMC) and funded a bespoke middleware, 'Binder', to push Archivematica's deep technical metadata and package identifiers into its collection system, The Museum System (TMS). Conservators can then track component dependencies and fixity from a familiar interface — a landmark in preserving software-based contemporary art.
Original source
Making Practice Practical: Developing Digital Preservation for Storage of Artworks at MoMA
Electronic Media Review (AIC)
The archived copy opens a snapshot on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, preserved for when the original moves or disappears.
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