I am building or managing an art collection

For anyone buying, documenting, conserving, lending, selling or transferring artworks who wants to understand their provenance, condition, rights and circulation requirements.

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8 guides

The environmental footprint of a digital artwork: consumption, servers and what can be measured

Cómo delimitar y estimar sin falsa precisión el consumo y las emisiones de una obra digital: sala, servidores, red, dispositivos, fabricación y cadena de bloques.

Verified on 18 October 2026
- digital art
- digital infrastructure
- sustainability
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Artificial intelligence and copyright in Europe: what has been decided in 2026

What the 2019 Directive, the AI Act and the European courts say about training AI on protected works, and what remains unresolved.

Verified on 27 September 2026
- art collecting
- generative AI
- digital infrastructure
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What to do if your digital artwork is on a platform that is closing

How to act in the event of a platform closure: exporting work and metadata, verifying dependencies, preserving evidence and migrating without promising non-existent portability.

Verified on 12 October 2026
- digital art
- conservation
- digital infrastructure
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How to exhibit an artwork that depends on the internet or an API

How to exhibit a work that relies on the internet or an API: dependency mapping, caching, graceful degradation, data, security, costs, and service termination.

Verified on 18 October 2026
- digital art
- conservation
- digital infrastructure
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How to inventory a collection that mixes physical and digital artworks

Cómo registrar en un mismo inventario obras físicas, archivos, software, dispositivos, licencias, ubicaciones y relaciones entre componentes.

Verified on 18 October 2026
- digital art
- conservation
- digital infrastructure
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How to preserve a web-based artwork or net art project

Qué conservar de una obra web: dominio, DNS, código, servidor, base de datos, servicios, interacción, captura y prueba de reproducción, sin confundir captura y obra.

Verified on 18 October 2026
- digital art
- conservation
- digital infrastructure
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Preserving a digital artwork

Qué conservar de una obra digital y cómo ordenarlo: separar archivo fuente, máster y copia de exhibición, organizar carpetas, nombrar y versionar archivos, comprobar la integridad y mantener copias independientes.

Reviewed on 1 October 2026
- artist archive
- artwork documentation
- digital infrastructure
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How OBJKT works: publishing, buying and preserving digital art on Tezos

What happens when a work is tokenised on OBJKT, what the buyer receives, how editions and royalties work and what you need to keep outside the platform.

Reviewed on 27 September 2026
- art collecting
- digital infrastructure
- art market
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