In 2009, Indiana University Bloomington published a report documenting the findings of a campus-wide census of audio, video, and film holdings which identified more than 560,000 media objects, most of them on degrading, obsolete analogue carriers. In 2010, Indiana University began a preservation planning process for time-based media holdings, engaging key campus stakeholders. The results of the first year of …
“The widely referenced and adopted More Product, Less Process methodology (MPLP) represents a much needed evolution in the manner of processing archival collections in order to overcome backlogs and resource shortfalls that institutions face. In the case of audiovisual-based collections, however, the ability to plan budgets, timelines, equipment needs, and other preservation plans that unequivocally impact access is directly tied …
This is a revision of the ‘Guideline for Federal Agency Use of Broadcast Wave Files’, initially published in September 2009. It defines levels of metadata to be embedded in digital audio files and recommends actions cocerning data elements in the BEXT chunk established as part of the Broadcat WAVE (BFW) file specification by the European Broadcast Union. The background documents …
Kryder’s Law refers to the rapid increase in areal storage density of digital storage media in the past decades and has often been used in digital preservation economic forecasts. Presented at UNESCO’s conference ‘Memory of the World in the Digital Age”, this paper presents a growing body of evidence suggesting that Kryder’s Law will not necessarily hold in the future …
The Academy has made the this extensive and valuable report available for free download via quick registration on their website. “The Digital Dilemma 2 focuses on the more acute challenges faced by independent filmmakers, documentarians and nonprofit audiovisual archives. While 75 percent of theatrically released motion pictures are independently produced, these communities typically lack the resources, personnel and funding …
A report on a study by the Technical University of Vienna and the Austrian Film Museum of content analysis (automatic indexing supporting search and retrieval) of archive film. The approach is not ground-breaking when applied to video content, but in this study they were specifically concerned with archived film. Therefore there were the additional problems of digitisation of archived film, plus …
