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This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue II, February 2025

AvoinGLAM report

Connecting Media Art Archives

Workshop on New Media Art Archiving 2025

The workshop Globally Connecting New Media Art Archives on archiving media art was arranged by ZKM | Center for Art and Media on 5–8 February 2025 in Karlsruhe, Germany. The workshop invited experts to lay the groundwork for a connected archival network. The network of archives includes both independent researchers and representatives from international archives, such as the ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive, Archive of Digital Art (ADA ), Ars Electronica, FILE (Electronic Language International Festival), ISEA Symposium Archives, MEMODUCT, and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.

In October 2024, AvoinGLAM initiated an expert meeting on Media Art on Wikimedia projects that set out to create a blueprint for using the Wikimedia ecosystem for archiving information around media art. Eight members of the expert network joined the ZKM workshop, with Chiara Borgonovo presenting the group's work.

During the workshop, Lozana Rossenova (Open Science Lab at TIB) and Andreas Kohlbecker (ZKM), both members of the expert network, spearheaded the creation of a common architectural vision for connected media art archives. The proposed architecture would enable archives with different levels of technical capability to connect their collections with one another. It would be done through a central registry based on a knowledge graph, allowing the archives to retain full control over their data.

Organizations with a knowledge graph could immediately allow their data to be federated while other kind of databases would have to make their data available as linked open data. The Wikibase option AvoinGLAM and the expert network are promoting, would provide archives without existing databases with a Wikibase setup that could connect to the global linked open data ecosystem. The infrastructure could further connect the media art archives to broader linked open data networks like Wikidata, Europeana, EU Data Spaces and European Open Science Cloud.

👉 Chiara Borgonovo, Susanna Ånäs, Dusan Barok, Annet Dekker, Joost Dofferhoff, Tereza Havlíková, Andreas Kohlbecker, Hanno Lans, Philipp Messner, Andrew Gryf Paterson, Lozana Rossenova, Gaby Wijers: Media Art Archiving on Wikimedia Projects.

👉 Lozana Rossenova: Connecting media art archives – closer to reality through advances in research data infrastructures, 10 February 2025, TIB blog.

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