About
Created by Myriad and Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Maintenance Culture was a project designed to address challenges related to preserving complex, born-digital, creative works in small institutions. Myriad and collaborators created and presented 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, the project had several outcomes: Workshops and Skillshares, Communities, Tools and Resources, and a White Paper.
Project History
2022 - 2023
Workshops & Skillshares
6 hybrid in-person & virtual digital preservation workshops in Baltimore, Houston, Los Angeles, the Midwest, New Orleans, and Seattle. Skillshares will be held in each city in conjunction with the workshops.
Communities
Connections between creators, galleries, memory institutions, and others interested in preserving complex, born-digital works.
Tools & Resources
A Field Guide, Workbook, Zine, and other tools and resources will be developed for creators, institutions, galleries, and others invested in preserving born-digital, creative works.
White Paper
Map of past and current projects addressing digital preservation of complex creative works, and recommending strategies for sustainability.
2023 Workshops & Community Involvement
Gathering artists, creators, and people who work at museums, galleries, archives, and libraries to work together to sustain long-term access to digital creative works.
Seattle
Detroit
Baltimore
Los Angeles
Houston
New Orleans
Articles & Conference Presentations
Maintenance Culture birthed many resources, among those are articles and presentations. Created and presented by Myriad, below is a list of their contributions to Sustaining Digital Creative Works.
Articles
- White Paper
Presentations
- Southeast Museums conference 2023
- Association of Moving image archivists 2023
- American Association of Museums 2023
- Poster at Registrars meeting 2022
- ARLIS 2024
Myriad is a national nonprofit consulting firm that specializes in collections preservation and planning for small to mid-sized cultural organizations. From digitization project planning to organizational strategy and facilitation, it’s our mission to bring you practical plans and solutions to help you transform the way you share, manage and preserve your collections and the stories they represent.
Our clients are ambitious, capable of institutional change, and passionate about their communities. Their collections take many forms including archives, library materials, manuscripts, photography, art and architecture, digital records, audiovisual media, time-based media art, research data, textiles, and art objects.
