Posted by: John McNeill |
Friday,
14
November 2014
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INFORMATION EXTRACTION
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PRESERVATION MANAGEMENT
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SCENARIOS
Acquisition of a born-digital archive collection
Tate Archive acquires material on British art from 1900. Our aim is to document the British art world in a broad sense, and we collect material relating to artists as well as other art world figures and institutions such as critics, curators and galleries. The Archive contains a wide range of different types of material, including...
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Semantic models of data dependencies
Image: Solar on the ISS Columbus module, Courtesy of the European Space Agency
One of the PERICLES case study partners, B.USOC, supports experiments on the International Space Station (ISS) and is the curator of both the raw science and operations data. Space Science experiments are typically very expensive to design, develop, and...
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Long-term display and the potential for virtualization of an artwork
Tate define Software-Based Artwork as any for which software is the core medium. The first acquisition of a Software-Based Artwork (SBA) took place in 2003, with Michael Craig-Martin’s Becoming (2003) and currently there are eight SBAs in Tate’s collection and one in the process of being acquired. The number of...
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Posted by: John McNeill |
Friday,
14
November 2014
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INFORMATION EXTRACTION
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SCENARIOS
Commissioning to Preservation Ingest and Re-use
Tate has its own media production unit, Tate Media, which produces a large volume of audio-visual content. This content aims to increase access to Tate’s collection and exhibitions, and contributes to Tate’s core mission of increasing public understanding and enjoyment of British, modern and contemporary art. The content is published...
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Posted by: John McNeill |
Friday,
14
November 2014
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OAIS
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SCENARIOS
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COMPONENT
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VIDEO
Ingest and the Conservation of Media Components
Tate has approximately 500 video artworks ranging from complex multi channel video installations to simple single channel videos. Since the early 1990s an uncompressed component digital master tape has been created for all standard definition video works entering the collection. These have then been migrated onto new stock and new formats...
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