Researcher Dr. Xiao Ma (Maximal Margin), Rhizome Preservation Director Dragan Espenschied, and former Rhizome Software Curator Lyndsey Jane Moulds contributed a short paper on computing access quality values for works of net art in archives for the iPres2022 conference on digital preservation in Glasgow.
The access quality value for a work of art can be expressed as a star rating or traffic light, indicating if users can expect a fully working, incomplete, or dysfunctional copy of that artwork, helping them choose which works to access and managing their expectations. The paper is now publicly available, and Rhizome is currently developing an access quality feature to be implemented in ArtBase, our archive of more than 2000 born-digital artworks dating back to the 1980s.
Read Access Quality Metrics for Net Art (PDF), or watch a video recording of the remote presentation.
The access quality indicator for ArtBase was originally proposed by former Rhizome Director Heather Corcoran, and later expanded on with research and design drafts by Dr. Lozana Rossenova.