3. we would like to...
preserve our growing Net Art records, while
systematically organizing and making accessible
our contemporary collection to a wider audience...
by doing so, we will formulate and promote Net Art’s
relevance and advocate our institution as
instrumental in the museum landscape of
New York City.
4. What is NET ART?
Why Was He Sad, Rafael Rozendaal, 2003 http://www.whywashesad.com
Kazimir Malevich, Rafael Rozendaal, 2008 http://www.kazimirmalevich.org
Antograph, Scott Snibbe, 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpInp1HuLx0#t=18
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, 2009 http://www.yhchang.com/PERFECT_ARTISTIC_WEB_SITE.html
5. Our Net Art Collection
➔ Museum of New Media Founded
1990
➔ First Net Art work commissioned
2003
➔ 12 years of collection on NetWorks
page
No Collections Management System ?!
6. Goals
●Providing accessibility to Net Art Collection for
museum researchers and the public.
●Promoting the preservation and conservation of
items in the collection, including artwork and
administrative documentation.
●Utilizing standards that will be implemented by
museum staff for present and future use.
●Providing the information to launch our Net Art
Retrospective in January of 2016.
●Update NetWorks page based on the metadata of
the new collection.
7. Challenges
● Preservation challenges when faced
with older digital artworks.
● Missing information and metadata.
● Staff learning xDams and LIDO
properly.
● Time constraints due to other
exhibitions handled by Collections
Management staff.
● The lack of published vocabularies.
8. The Current State of the
Collection
● Our fifty plus materials are saved to
the Museum’s internal server without
associated metadata or further
background information.
● Small volume of printed documents
and CD-roms from the early 2000s.
● In preparation for our Net Art
Retrospective, the MoNM needs a
clear-cut management system.
9. Technology Implemented
● A collection management system called xDams,
web-based and open sourced.
● We will use a standard metadata schema
known as LIDO(Lightweight Information
Describing Objects).
● xDams only requires an internet browser
(preferably Firefox) registrars, curators, and
museum administrators can access the records
off-site.
● A museum server that covers all departments
with a large amount of space for entering data.
12. Staff ● Collection Management Team
● Hire full-time (40 hrs/wk) Project
Archivist
o Proposed Salary: $25.00/hr
● 2 part-time interns for cataloging and
data entry
o 1-2 days a week for course credit
● Web Developer
o $25.00/hr
● Conservation team will assist with digital
conservation efforts if necessary.
13. Supplies
New work station for project archivist
●21.5” iMac
●CD Drive
●Can use Epson scanner at intern
work station
xDams
15. ●Using XML data to learn more
about LIDO fields.
●Deciding which fields work for
different types of records.
●Will provide handbook to
future employees.
Populating xDams Fields
16. The Museum of New Media’s
Numbering Schemes & File Naming Conventions
17. A New Numbering Scheme Developed for
MoNM’s Net Art Collection
The Net Art Collections Accession number will
be comprised of 3 parts
NA . 2010 . 001
⬆ ⬆ ⬆
[Acronym for Net Art] ⬆ [Sequential #]
[Year of acquisition]
18. New File Naming Conventions For
Digital Files & Folders
● The Net Art Collection will have Artwork Folders,
Administrative Folders and Exhibition Folders.
↙Folder Label Identifiers
NAF.10.001 Artwork File Folder
NAF.10.001.1 Administrative File Folder
NAF.10.001.2 Exhibition File Folder
19. Filing Conventions
We will
implement a descriptive file naming system which will be used
to identify specific documents housed within Artwork,
Administrative and Exhibition Folders.
21. Create Internal Vocabularies For
Describing Net Art
● An Internal Vocabulary guide will be used by MoNM
catalogers for describing Net Art.
● Since this is a fairly new art form, we have discovered that
certain terminologies used for describing Net Art, (i.e.
standard terminologies) are not always found in published
union catalog resources(i.e. Getty’s AAT Thesaurus).
22. Timeline for Completion
With the following calendar in mind, our staff should have the xDams software up and running in a six month
period with the new successfully cataloged Net Art collection.
May 10, 2015 Finalize request for proposal
May 15, 2015 Begin hiring new staff/interns
June 15, 2015 Bring on new staff/begin training with Collection Management Staff
July 1, 2015 Inventory works and provide necessary conservation
July 15, 2015 Begin creating records in xDams
August 1, 2015 Assessment of progress, evaluation of work so far/work to be done
September 1, 2015 Second Assessment with addition of Net Art Curators & Museum Director
October 1, 2015 Project Completion
January 1, 2016 Net Art Retrospective
