DXARTS

Using CODEXA

Guidelines for Contributors

The DXARTS on-line Catalogue of Digital and Experimental Arts (CODEXA) (http://content.lib.washington.edu/dxartsweb/) is an electronic resource which contains information about works created by those affiliated with the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media. These works include collaborations between DXARTS and other groups, individual works by DXARTS faculty and staff, student work, such as Ph.D. dissertations and undergraduate theses, as well as work by former students or affiliated artists.

Form of Submission

Please provide the following:

• Identifying information about the project by entering project metadata on the CODEXA web site;
• ISO-9660 (International Standards Organization 9660) conformant data CD/DVD with:
1. Project files: including computer code/programs, audio/video files, associated image and text files, other data such a spreadsheets;
2. A brief video/audio clip of the work (~20 seconds) or still images. These will be available to all users of CODEXA as sample representations of your work;
3. A short written description of your work (less than 250 words);
4. A list of the files contained on the CD/DVD.
5. All filenames should have extentions.
6. Avoid any spaces in file names. Use underscores to replace spaces.

CODEXA Notes

1. Contributors to CODEXA will be asked to complete a Creative Commons licensing agreement for information about and the provided representational audio/video depictions of their projects. Contributors retain all rights to their work.
2. DXARTS may show the work to prospective students, donors, and others.
3. All projects will be generally accessible through DSpace.
4. If a project does not have general access, contributors agree to allow DXARTS to serve as gatekeeper granting access on a case-by-case basis to download the project in agreement with the Creative Commons License.
5. Contributors to CODEXA declare that the work they are submitting does not infringe prevailing US copyrights.
6. Avoid the following in your submitted work (CD/DVD):
• viruses
• encryption
• compression
• password-protection
• Digital Rights Management (DRM) controls
• platform/vendor/proprietary formats
• USE stable, open, well-supported file formats:
  • TEXT (ASCII): *.txt, *.html, *.xml, *.csv
  • IMAGE: *.tiff, *.jp2
  • AUDIO: *.aiff, *.wav
  • VIDEO: *.avi, *.mov(H.264)
7. Florida Center for Library Automation http://www.fcla.edu/
8. CODEXA Submission Information (http://staff.washington.edu/stacy/prb/dev_doc/cdx_subinstr.html)
9. THIS PAGE (http://staff.washington.edu/stacy/prb/dev_doc/cdx_2010.html)

[CODEXA Submission Information]

cdx_2010.html (05/2010)