MoMA Blog by Arthur Wehrhahn about its efforts to preserve films, the background and importance of film preservation, and about the Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center, where this valuable works take place and where the Museum stores all of its films in climate-controlled conditions to prevent any further deterioration. Containing a video of a tour by the author.
This Digital Preservation and Technology Timeline was designed by IPCSR and Cornell University for the Digital Preservation Management Tutorial. The timeline was designed to identify significant precedents and milestones- professional, organizational and technological, to illustrate the combination of developments, events and decisions that got us to where we are today, and to help place new and emerging technologies into context …
This document, developed by The National Archives (UK), gives guidance on the need for a digital preservation policy. It explains why a digital preservation policy is necessary and how a policy can be developed. It discusses the main success criteria for a policy and its relation to other policy areas. The guide is aimed at archives looking to develop and …
This is David Rosenthal’s blog, discussing his work in digital preservation at LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) of Stanford University. David Rosenthal is investigating peer-to-peer techniques for fault and attack tolerance in the LOCKSS program at Stanford, and is also responsible for the OpenBSD-based network appliance technology that most LOCKSS peers use. The LOCKSS program is aimed at …
The National Archives Labs is a new venture which aims to be a more interactive and engaging way for customers of the National Archives to influence the development of its innovations. Whether these are improvements to existing services or completely new ways of presenting the rich and varied information in the collection, the National Archives want to engage customers in …
The Film Archive Forum represents all of the public sector film and television archives which care for the UK’s moving image heritage. It represents the UK’s public sector moving image archives in all archival aspects of the moving image, and acts as the advisory body on national moving image archive policy. The Film Archive Forum (FAF) was established in 1987 …
