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PANIC Objectives
- Review current and proposed
strategies and existing projects that focus on the
preservation of scientific data and new media art.
- Develop a classification set (i.e.,
a Type vocabulary) for multimedia objects and
determine the criteria necessary to classify digital
objects into such categories.
- Quantitatively and qualitatively
analyze and compare various strategies (emulation,
migration, documentation) for preservation of the
different classes of new media art by applying them to a
number of case studies.
- Conduct interviews with content
creators to determine their attitudes to preservation
strategies and the possible effects of preservation on
creative integrity, meaning, authenticity,
originality.
- Based on the test cases, extend and
refine existing strategies or develop new strategies for
the preservation of multimedia digital
objects.
- Develop tools, workflows and
software applications to support preservation strategies
e.g., metadata/documentation input tools, automatic
reformatting software, questionnaires.
- Develop recommendations and
guidelines for multimedia creators and collecting
agencies with respect to: multimedia formats, authoring
tools, platforms, metadata etc. to facilitate
preservation and ensure maximum longevity and
accessibility of artworks whilst also ensuring that the
artistic integrity, authenticity and originality is
maintained during any preservation processes.
- Determine the optimum preservation
strategy for each class of multimedia object.
- Develop an ontology for describing
preservation services.
- Implement a web service
architecture for preservation services.
