Large-Scale Curation and Presentation of CD-ROM Art

For memory institutions both preservation and presentation of digital art is especially challenging. The digital toolset available to artists is almost infinite as well as their creativity using technology in unconventional ways. In contrast to other sources of digital artifacts with sector-wide quasi-standards on digital formats, each artwork presents a challenge of its own. Hence, each object need individual examination and preparation in order to preserve it in a useful way. In this paper we present workflows and tools for emulationbased preservation and presentation of digital art by the example of a collection of CD-ROM art. Furthermore, we evaluate the performance results of an emulation-based approach.