Maintenance Culture
The Maintenance Culture Resources are intended for two separate but overlapping audiences and user groups: Creators and Maintainers.
Creators are those people who make born-digital works of art: installation artists, software artists, graphic designers, filmmakers, etc.
These resources offer guidance for artists who want to preserve their legacies, exhibit their works, and/or transfer materials to a collecting institution for future stewardship.
Maintainers of born-digital, creative works are those people who work with and care for collections. This may include conservators, registrars, archivists, av technicians, and other similarly positioned workers at museums, libraries, archives, historical societies, and other cultural heritage institutions.
These resources have been designed particularly to aid those maintainers who work at institutions with a smaller staff and fewer resources allocated to preserving born-digital, creative works.
Maintenance Culture is a project by Myriad, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to address challenges related to preserving complex, born-digital, creative works in small institutions. Myriad and collaborators will create and present an innovative, collaborative, digital preservation training program, expanding on existing curricula to specifically cover preserving time-based media art and other complex, born-digital works.
