Contents:
- 1. Executive Summary
- 2. Rationale of the DAVID Project
- 3. State of the Art on damage prevention and repair: 3.1 Understanding how damage occurs and what impact it has on digital AV Content
- 3.2 Risk Management for longterm quality assurance and interoperable preservation metadata for digital AV content
- 3.3 Scalable tools for damage protection, repair and quality improvement of digital AV objects
- 3.4 Standardised service-oriented interfaces
- 4. Glossary
This report (15 pgs.) provides a brief overview of existing research concerning digital audiovisual media damage, its prevention and repair. The information was compiled as part of the development of the DAVID (digital av media damage prevention and repair) Project proposal and represents the ‘state of the art’ at the project’s start in December 2012. It was compiled by staff from project partners Joanneum Research, University of South Hampton IT Innovation, Cube-Tec International and INA (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel).It addresses topics in four areas: Understanding how damage occurs in IT based storage systems and what impact loss has on the usability of digital AV content ; Risk management for long-term quality assurance and interoperable preservation metadata for digital AV content ; Scalable tools for content based damage detection (digital dropouts), repair (digital dropouts and digital sensor noise) and quality improvement (resolution) of digital AV objects ; and Standardised service-oriented interfaces (FIMS) for integrating project results applied to audiovisual collections.
This report is meant to sketch the problem, identify existing research and highlight what the DAVID project will focus on in its two and a half year existence. It is a useful resource for researchers looking for a complete list of research produced over the past years on these subjects and for digital audiovisual archivists who are looking for a relatively brief but reliable technical explanation of the most urgent problems to be faced. It does not provide solutions. For those, readers will have to wait for the project deliverables.