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The following files, related to the research project Capturing Unstable Media, are available for download.

Project Deliverables

Deliverable 1.1 - Inventory
An overview of interesting online archives of unstable media art and of preservation-related initiatives relevant for Capturing Unstable Media; position of V2_Organisation.

Deliverable 1.2 - Capturing strategies
Definition and typologies of electronic art activities; capturing versus preservation of contemporary art; documentation strategies; the Capturing Unstable Media Conceptual Model; guidelines for building and maintaining a digital media archive; general recommendations for capturing unstable media (see also the recommendations on this site).

Deliverable 1.3 - Metadata
Various metadata issues related to capturing unstable media: a thesaurus for electronic art, documentation genres, terminology for distributed authorship, metadata for interaction and for describing interdependencies between components of projects.

Deliverable 1.4 - Content research
Thorough research of the two major case studies of this project: whisper by Thecla Schiphorst and Susan Kozel, and DataCloud 2.0. General study of 8 smaller cases of artworks described in the V2_Archive.

Deliverable 2.1 - Interoperability
General observations about Capturing Unstable Media and archival interoperability; comparison of interoperability approaches; comparing the CMCM and the CIDOC CRM; possible entry points for archival interoperability in electronic art.

Deliverable 2.2 - Implementation
Technical realizations for Capturing Unstable Media: an online archive portal for V2_; an XML- and RDF-based archive.

Summary of research results
A 15-page summary of the main results of this research project

Capturing Unstable Media Conceptual Model (CMCM)

If you are familiar with ontologies and the Protégé ontology editor:

• Download the latest version of Protégé (stanford.edu)
• Download cmcm_final.pprj (Protégé project file), cmcm_final.pont (Protégé ontology file) and cmcm_final.pins (Protégé instances file) and put them in the same directory; open cmcm_final.pprj in Protégé to consult the CMCM.

If you are not familiar with ontologies and/or the Protégé ontology editor:

• Browse the HTML export of the CMCM.