Join us for a Maintenance Culture workshop or skillshare in 2023. Creators, artists, and makers of born-digital, creative works are invited to connect with museum workers, librarians, and other maintainers of digital works at the skillshare. Maintainers of born-digital, creative works are invited to build community and learn about good practices at the workshop.

Myriad announces our new Project Director for Maintenance Culture, Elena Cordova. Elena will bring her extensive experience with museum collections, fine arts materials, and material culture as a consultant and worker in libraries and archives to this project, to lead it in its second year.

Myriad gathered a group of creators and maintainers of born-digital, creative works at a Charrette to start defining guidelines and building a curriculum for sustaining access to complex digital creative works. We asked Charrette participants to build on existing frameworks, to add information specific to works such as digital design, time-based media art, net art, and augmented reality. Read the blog post to preview some recommendations that will make it into the guidelines.

We gathered 20 people, most of whom had not collaborated before, together to work on Maintenance Culture guidelines and curriculum. To build some cohesion across the group, set a base for decision-making, and guide our work throughout the Charrette, we facilitated an exercise to identify shared values. Through this exercise, we established a list of shared values that will guide us in our work on Maintenance Culture.

Making of Maintenance Culture: Creating our Visual Identity - When we started Maintenance Culture we wanted a quickly recognizable visual identity for the project - something that communicates qualities of the work, catches the eye, and unifies materials that we create through the project. Abby Doyle worked with us to make our Maintenance Culture branding dreams come true. Read the blog for more on the process and results.

Myriad gathered people who create and maintain born-digital creative works to start writing guidelines and shaping tools to support small institutions preserving complex, born-digital, creative works. Part 1 of our Charrette Recap series highlights the fish bowl conversation that started off the event.

We’re collaboratively developing digital preservation training and resources, starting with a design charrette to engage stakeholders who create and maintain born-digital, creative works.

Myriad is creating Maintenance Culture communities in 6 areas across the US, to build connections across institutions, creators, galleries, and others interested in preserving born-digital, creative works.

Introducing Maintenance Culture: Sustaining Digital Creative Works