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Program

Preservation and Access: Research and Development

Period of Performance

1/1/2007 - 12/31/2009

Funding Totals

$307,691.00 (approved)
$307,691.00 (awarded)

Forging the Future: New Tools for Variable Media Preservation

FAIN: PR-50011-07

University of Maine, Orono (Orono, ME 04473-1513)
Jon Cooper Ippolito (Project Director: July 2006 to August 2013)

The development of a new metadata standard and three complementary tools for the cataloging and preservation of born-digital and ephemeral artworks.

Forging the Future proposes a consortium of museums and cultural heritage organizations dedicated to exploring, developing, and sharing new vocabularies and tools for cultural preservation.