Abstract – this paper briefly describes the establishment of a digital archival infrastructure to preserve one artwork from the late 90’s and a complete artist archive. Within those digital preservation processes an accessible, transparent and sustainable infrastructure will be designed, implemented and evaluated, fitting the existing collection management structure. The most critical point is building a system relying on open source software in an institutional environment without dedicated knowledge and experience. While building, testing and integrating the Linux working station to virtualize and transform those artworks it is confirmed that this is an efficient method to built transparent institutional capacities and capabilities.

software-based artwork, digital sustainability, virtualization, open source, cooperation

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