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General
- Preserving Complex Digital Objects edited by Janet Delve and David Anderson: http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=10751
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- This edited volume is the result of the preservation of Complex Objects Symposia: http://www.pocos.org/
- Earlier versions of some of the articles in the book (and several articles that are not included in the book) are available here: http://www.pocos.org/publications.php
- As you can see from the site, POCOS, divided "complex objects" into 3 major categories:
- visualizations & simulations
- software art
- videogames & virtual worlds
Archaeology
Architecture
Art
- The museum community has been working on the preservation of CDOs for 25 years, here is an abbreviated bibliography for "variable media":
Winget, Megan. “Like a Wave upon the sand: Digital Preservation of Variable Media Art”, University of Texas faculty website, 2005. http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~megan/research/Winget_DigPres.pdf, accessed on October 20, 2011.
The Smithsonian Institution. “Collaborations in Conserving Time-Based Art: A Summary of Discussion Group Sessions of a Colloquium Co-organized by the Lunder Conservation Center Of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery And the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.” May 2010 http://www.si.edu/Content/consortia/Time-Based-Art_Report.pdf, accessed on October 12, 2011
Tate: Research Projects: Matters in Media Art – Collaborating Towards the Care of Time Based Media http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/majorprojects/mediamatters/, accessed on October 3, 2011
Variable Media Network http://www.variablemedia.net/e/index.html, accessed on October 1, 2011
Sterling, Bruce. "Digital Decay" Preserving the Immaterial: A Conference on Variable Media. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, March 30 & 31, 2001. http://variablemedia.net/pdf/Sterling.pdf, accessed on October 13, 2011
Ahmed, Salah Uddin , et al.. “Information Technology and Art: Concepts and State of the Practice.” 2008, SArt project, http://prosjekt.idi.ntnu.no/sart/publications/BChapter2_IT&Art.pdf, accessed on 10/1/2011
Rinehart, Richard, “The Media Art Notation System: Documenting and Preserving Digital/Media Art”, LEONARDO, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 181–187, 2007, http://www.coyoteyip.com/rinehart/papers_files/leonardo_mans.pdf, accessed on October 29, 2011
Preserving the Immaterial: A Conference on Variable Media http://variablemedia.net/e/preserving/html/var_pre_index.html, accessed on October 29, 2011