The OASIS Project

OASIS is the acronym of Open Archiving System with Internet Sharing. It was funded as project by the European Union under the master program EU Culture 2000 from May 2004 until April 2007.
The project has established a distributed internet platform for

• research
• preservation and
• documentation of electronic arts.
  

The goal was to provide a complex system in order to ensure the sustainable availability of European cultural heritage in the field of electronic arts. OASIS presents novel models and ideas about networked media archives.

General Information

Find more general → information about the OASIS project and the included artistic and technological goals here.

Get an overview of the → reports provided by the OASIS consortium.

Read a → summary of OASIS development.

Observe the → assessment of the results achieved within the project.

Partner Databases

The → partner databases are introduced. Their designs vary because of history and institutional requirements.

How to participate?

You want to participate in the OASIS Platform and contribute your content to the shared archive? Please follow → this link.

Former Project Leader

HfG | Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (DE)

For additional information after the end of the project please contact info-at-oasis-archive.eu

Objectives

• Analysis of the partners’ databases and decision for a mutual → metadata model.

• Implementation of an → open platform for location-independent presentation of electronic arts.

• Development of a → technical interface for sharing information, metadata and content of heterogeneous databases.

• Guidelines in handling electronic art in a sustainable manner: → preservation technologies in media art context.

• Analysis of → sustainable storing media solutions.

• Research into multi → media formats and codices for the distribution of electronic art content via internet (streaming technologies).

• Supply of → curatorial tools.

• Publication of OASIS content and knowledge in
  

→ conferences, exhibitions and festivals.

• Download the → Logo.

• Integrate the → Search Interface to your website.