SAVING STAN: Preserving the Digital Artwork of Joseph Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski

Ellis, Taryn

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SAVING STAN: Preserving the Digital Artwork of Joseph Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski

Author(s)

Ellis, Taryn

Issue Date

2023

Keyword(s)

• automation
• migration
• RISC OS
• born digital
• digital artwork

Abstract

It is not unusual to find at-risk obsolete carriers in archival collections, but these 3½ inch ADFS-formatted floppy disks hold original digital artworks from the late career of a pioneering Australian multimedia artist. The graphics files, created on an Acorn Archimedes in the late 80s and early 90s, had not been seen for more than 25 years, and the difficult process of preserving and providing access to these artworks, and their associated software, highlights the fragility of the material from this era. The case study presented here discusses how the State Library of South Australia combined open-source and community software to automate the extraction and migration of obsolete content from these disks while capturing filesystem and other metadata—and discovered that emulation is not always the simplest solution.

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Presentation: https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121687

Series/Report Name or Number

iPRES 2023

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Copyright held by the author(s). The text of this paper is published under a CC BY-SA license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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