Hello all, and apologies for posting late. My interest in the course has a lot to do with the oblique applications of digital art curation methods to other domains, like institutional e-records or digital scholarship in a variety of disciplines. Ippolito and Rinehart frame new media art preservation as a laboratory for methods that “may inform the problem of preservation in other fields” (p. 20). That certainly seems to be true for capturing and preserving dynamic, web-based material. See, for example, the ongoing development of WebRecorder and other web and social media capture tools at Rhizome. Without really knowing how WebRecorder works, including whether it builds on the Wget-based workflow Fino-Radin describes or is a separate beast altogether, it seems incredibly useful for institutions whose missions and collection policies differ quite a bit from Rhizome’s.
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HIST 477/677 American University