About netart repository
The net art repository based on wikibase software was created withtin the scope of the reconstruction project "without addresses" in 2024. It is a database storing records on reconstruction activities of Zentrum für Netzkunst. Taking the reconstruction of without addresses as a modelling case study, the net art repository was build in such a way to acommodate future reconstruction and documentation effords. Taking the Rhizome's artbase as a starting point, net art repository has been expanded by further vocabulary to describe secondary documentation of net art.
Past net art detabases
Combination of written pages and structured data
The netart repository was created in order to document, contextualize and describe works of netart. Through combining both the wikibase as a machine redable structured data and the wiki pages as a human readable text it wants to ensure a solid knowledge transfer.
Focus on detailed description of individual net art pieces
In art historical literature, the netart works are often described in groups, based on their technical or thematic focus. Always percieved in the plurality, the individual works of netart have not been sufficiently analyzed and described to appreciate their complexity and entirity. The netart repository wants to focus on describe the works, their technical side, the context of the origin, as well as the interpretation of the work.
Secondary documentation material
Further extension and improvement
Since the net art repository was set up in the frame of a reconstruction project which had only limited resources dedicated to the wiki creation. In the future we would love to move this cloudbased instance to our own server, which would improve the wiki experience. It would allow as to directl embed all the media, which would be aspecially beneficial for the secondary image and video material that we collected. It would also be possible to build a custom designed front-end to make the browse-experience more pleasent. It would also ensure that all the data is stored on our native artist run server. We hope there will be an opportunity to acquire financial resources to make this possible.
Controlled Vocabulary
We developed our controlled vocabulary based on the ArtBase data model by Rhizome. However, we decided to differentiate in same cases in order to describe the primary and secondary documentation material.
Who is editing this wikibase?
The netart repository was initiated by Zentrum für Netzkunst and has been edited by the memebers. If you are interested in expending and editing please feel welcome to write us at info@netart.berlin.