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WhatsNext
Montevideo's Database
The Netherlands Media Art Collection Information System WatsNext is an integrated, relational collection database developed for Windows and Linux, with the aid of MySQL, Delphi, PHP and XSLT.
In WatsNext the work and its manifestation are distinguished. The core of the system is therefore the abstract description of the artwork, to which the various formats it takes (video art, installation, performance), the media/carrier (Digital Betacam, VHS, DVD, etc.) and artists (collectives, individuals, etc.) is coupled. Specific information is stored at each level.
Works from the various collections are integrated in WatsNext:
- Distribution (video art and installations that are actively distributed >1600);
- Documentation (video documentation, interviews, works for reference > 4000)
- Conservation (conserved works from the Institute's own collection and from third parties > 3500)
- Masters and footage (artist's examples of their own work and records of events > 2500)
- Administered works (works by others administered by the Institute, excluding conservation > 500)
- Video server (MPEG-2 files of the distribution collection > 1500)
It is therefore possible to tell at a glance which works and media formats of that work are present in the collection, and what the differences are in terms of version, edition, length, subtitling, editing (for instance, loops or signals), presentation quality and rights.
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Considerations about Montevideo's
→ Public catalogue.
Learn more about Montevideo's
→ Metadata Model.
→ Metadata Resources Links to articles about and projects involving metadata
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts
Link to the institution: http://www.montevideo.nl
Visit the Montevideo → database.
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