OASIS | Open Archiving System with Internet Sharing

Mission Statement for a Digital Media Archive

The project has established a distributed internet platform for research, preservation and documentation of electronic arts. The goal was to provide a complex system in order to ensure the sustainable availability of European cultural heritage in the field of electronic arts.

→ Visit the OASIS-Platform.

Objectives

• Analysis of the partners’ databases and decision for a mutual → OASIS metadata model.

• Implementation of an → open platform for location-independent presentation of electronic arts.

• Development of a → technical interface for sharing information, metadata and content of heterogeneous databases.

• Guidelines in handling electronic art in a sustainable manner: → preservation technologies in an electronic art context.

• Analysis of → sustainable storage media solutions.

• Research into multi → media formats and codices for the distribution of electronic art content via internet (streaming technologies).

• Supply of → curatorial tools.

• Publication of OASIS content and knowledge in
  

General Information

Find more general → infomation about the OASIS project and the included artistic and technological goals here.

OASIS Consortium

Get to know the → OASIS Partners.

OASIS Search

This link leads directly to the frontend of the networked → OASIS Search. Find more information about → OASIS Frontend.

Preservation

How to → preserve electronic artworks in a suitable way?
General comments on proper handling of electronic art.

OASIS Activities

The → OASIS Activities give information about actions and presentations at symposia, festivals, exhibitions and in the context of research and teaching.

How to participate?

You want to participate in the OASIS Platform and contribute your content to the shared archive? Please follow → this link.

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