This process involves the use of Rhizome’s web archiving software tool Webrecorder in order to create an archival WARC file. WARC files are re-performed via Rhizome’s Webenact platform. These re-performances aim to be as close to the original presentation of the artwork as possible, but still involve curatorial decisions taken by the archivist. See the Archival Plan metadata for more details.
Webrecorder capture
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Description: The activity or preservation procedure through which an item in the ArtBase database has been created. This may refer to primary source materials supplied by artists, such as artist links and descriptions. It may also refer to actions undertaken by the archivists and the preservation team at Rhizome in order to generate an artwork variant.
Exclusion of external links from capture
Description: The archivist (or curator) has decided to exclude some external links from the archival capture of the artwork, either due to link rot, or intentional curation aimed at preserving a bounded variant of the artwork without violating third-party copyrights, potentially sensitive or private data, or for another reason deemed suitable by the archivist.
External links restored via public web archive captures
Description: Some of the external links in this archival capture have been restored through extraction from public web archives, such as the Internet Archive. This procedure is necessary in occasionally necessary if links are broken in the live web variant of the artwork, but suitable resources from the relevant time period can be found in existing web archives.
Temporal mismatch in some external resources
Description: Some of the external links in this archival capture have been restored through extraction from public web archives, such as the Internet Archive, but due to unavailability of complete resources from the same time period, some resources may have been restored from archival captures taken at different points in time. Such restoration work is carried out at the discretion of the archivist and aims to preserve temporal fidelity as best as possible.
Social media privacy allowances
Description: Some links in this archival capture may have been disabled in order to preserve the privacy of third-parties who may not have granted the rights to archiving their data to the artist. This archival plan is commonly used in archival captures of social media performance artworks where the privacy of users other than the artist and their collaborators should be honoured.