Identifying Threats to Successful Digital Preservation: the SPOT Model for Risk Assessment

Contents: This article proposes a new outcome-based model, the Simple Property-Oriented Threat (SPOT) Model for Risk Assessment which defines six essential properties of successful digital preservation and identifies a limited set of threats. After an introduction, section 2 reviews several existing threat models in the context of four desired attributes: conceptual clarity, appropriate detail and consistent granularity, comprehensiveness and simplicity. …

Automated Visual Quality Analysis for Media Production

Contents: I. Introduction II. Automatic Impairment Detectors III. Manual Verification IV. Workflow Integration V. Conclusion Acknowledgement References This technical paper describes tools developed to assess the visual quality of audiovisual content. Detected defects include things such as video breakup, noise/grain and sharpness issues, contrast/image and dynamic/brightness problems and blocking artifacts; they do not assess technical property conformance such as file …

Orphan Works Directive 2012/28/EU

Official text of the Orphan Works Directive 2012/28/EU which allows orphan works within the EU to be digitised and distributed. However, the orphan work status can only be claimed after a thorough investigation in one EU state among libraries, archives, museums (LAMs), educational institutes, cinematographic heritage organisations and public broadcasting organisations. Understandably, the Dutch heritage organisations have responded with a …

D3.1 Open research challenges and research roadmap for SCAPE

Contents: 1 Introduction 2 Research in Digital Preservation: 2.1 Digital Preservation Research roadmaps 2.2 Current Research Questions in DP 2.3 Research Goals in SCAPE: 2.3.1 Overview and method 2.3.2 Scalable platform 2.3.3 Scalable planning and watch 2.3.4 Scalable components 2.3.5 Additional research data testbed goals 2.4 Emerging Topics 3 Community involvement: 3.1 Digital information models 3.2 Value, utility, cost, risk …

D3.1: Tenders for Transfer of Film to Digital Master

Contents: 1. Introduction and Background 2. Calls for Tenders by Film Archives 3. Sample Descriptive Documents This deliverable from the European Film Gateway 1914 project explains the process of preparing and issuing an RFT (Request for Tender). It was written by the EYE Film Institute staff who built up considerable experience during its participation in the Images for the Future …