+ Storage / Emulation / Migration / Reinterpretation
+ Guggenheim Museum, Seeing Double

Archiving the Avant Garde: Documenting and Preserving Digital/Media Art
Variable Media Network
V_2 Capturing Unstable Media
INCCA (International Network for the Preservation of Contemporary Art)

+ Vocabulary
+ Formal Notation Systems / Interoperability of Metadata:
Dublin Core
Categories for Descriptions of Works of Art
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)
V_2 Capturing Unstable Media Conceptual Model (CMCM)
Sharmin Choudhury and Jane Hunter, Preservation and Archival of Newmedia and Interactive Collection (PANIC)
Digital Music Library Data Model Specification
Media Art Notation System (MANS)

+ Digital Asset Management Database (DAMD), developed at the UC Berkeley Art Museum.

+ The Guggenheim's Variable Media Questionnaire

Behaviors: installed / performed / reproduced / duplicated / interactive / encoded / networked / contained

University of Maine Still Water Lab, The Pool
Open Art Network

Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach (published by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montreal)

"Preserving the Immaterial" conference, Guggenheim Museum (2001)

Howard Besser, "The Next Stage: Moving from Isolated Digital Collections to Interoperable Digital Libraries." First Monday 7.6 (June 2002). First Monday (30 December 2003)

Capturing Unstable Media: Deliverable 1.3 - Metadata. 2004. V2_. 28 February 2004

Richard Rinehart, A System of Formal Notation for Scoring Works of Digital and Variable Media Art / Appendices to A System of Formal Notation for Scoring Works of Digital and Variable Media Art

Sharmin Choudhury and Jane Hunter, "Implementing Preservation Strategies for Complex Multimedia Objects"