This is the presentation given by Michel Merten (Memnon) and Tobias Golodnoff (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) as part of the Building Workflows for Digitisation and Digital Preservation session at Screening the Future 2011. In this presentation, Merten and Golodnoff discuss the DAT Digitisation project of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, and Memnon’s technical and planning involvement. The presentation includes the key steps …
The preservation of digital objects involves crucial decisions regarding the most suitable file formats to be employed. The options are several and the selection is not always easy. This website lists 7 important factors (disclosure, adoption, transparency, self-documentation, external dependencies, impact of patents, technical protection mechanisms) to be considered that apply across digital formats and influence the feasibility and cost of …
This whitepaper from Spectra Logic Corporation and dated April 2010 examines several tape technologies for the market that includes medium and enterprise organizations. They include LTO and proprietary Oracle/Sun/STK and IBM drives and more specifically LTO5 and LTO4, T10000B and T9840D, and T9940B and TS1130. Selecting a tape technology is typically driven by capacity, performance, reliability, and cost and this whitepaper helps to distinguish the useful from the …
In the 120 year history of film, several hundred colour processes have been developed. Many had their roots in nineteenth century still photography. This website describes all significant colour processes, but also puts them in a contemporary and historical context. The information on the website gives the technical detail on how the process works, but also describes how the process …
American Film Archive is an online educational resource for filmmakers seeking to safeguard their digital video / motion picture data for long-term preservation. The site has a variety of information, covering: Preservation: an introduction to developing a preservation strategy for moving image / digital video collection. Reports: online resources on preservation and technology; practical advice from journals, books, articles and other …
This website contains white papers, webinar presentations and other material with a particular focus on the preservation of data: the results of research. The information on storage, risks, trust and repositories has direct relevance to audiovisual files and their preservation. From the website: “Digital encoding dominantes how information is created, shaped and exchanged. This dependence carries many risks. …
