D16.1 Content retrieval & browsing interfaces – General Design Rules & The UI’s in PrestoSpace

Contents: 1 Executive Summary 2 Overview 3 “Golden Rules” 3.1 ISO-Standards 3.2 The Golden Rules of User Interface Design 3.3 A Summary of Principles for User-Interface Design 3.4 Eight Golden Rules of Dialog Design 3.5 General Principles of User-Interface Design 3.6 Design Principles for Tomorrow 3.7 Effective User-Interface Design: The Four Rules 3.8 Ergonomic Guidelines for User-Interface Design 3.9 Ten …

Web Archiving Service

This portal provides researchers and the public the opportunity to search through a collection of webarchives. The webarchives concern a specific topic or a specific part of the Californian government. Partners to this webservice (WAS), as well as researchers, WAS curators and webmasters each get specific insights into the portal. Users can choose a webarchive from the alphabetical list, thus …

Telecine Field Dominance

This report addresses problems archives may encounter when they try to encode videotapes whose content originates from a telecine transfer of film originals. It focuses particularly on field synchronisation problems which can cause interlacing artefacts, discusses confusion over film dominance and suggests solutions. This is a technical paper targetting film transfer engineers as well as technical personnel involved in video …

The Digital Dilemma: Strategic Issues in Archiving and Access Digital Motion Picture Materials

Contents: Executive Summary    Archiving    The Transition to Digital    Current Practice, Other Industries    Archiving in the Changing Environment    Digital Motion Picture Archiving Economics    Industry Needs and Opportunities    Consensus    Appendix, Case Study Data    References. Dit rapport behandelt het maken en bewaren van speelfilms in de context van de toegenomen digitale productie, distributie en …

Sustainability of Digital Formats. Planning for Library of Congress Collections. Format Descriptions

Contents: Still image Sound Moving Image Textual Web archive Datasets Geospatial Generic The digital content format descriptions provide specific information about individual formats and their characteristics. Each description provides moderately detailed information and citations. Planned for inclusion are a wide variety of formats: file formats, file-format classes, bitstream structures and encodings, and the mechanisms used to compress files or bitstreams. …

D22.8 Annual Report on Preservation Issues for European Audiovisual Collections (2007)

Contents: 1. Document Scope 2. Executive Summary 3. Cost and Value Overview 4. Costs: Digitisation and Associated Activities 5. Digital Preservation 6. Digitisation Costs in Europe 7. Value of European Audiovisual Heritage 8. Access 9. European and Global Support for Audiovisual Preservation 10. Service Industry Developments 11. References. This status report on audiovisual preservation issues across all EC Countries in …