Open Educational Resources

The Higher Education Academy and JISC have been working in partnership to support the HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resources programme. This InfoKit offers an overview on Open Educations Resources (OERs) and the issues surrounding them. It explores management, legal and technical issues you will need to consider when planning to make your educational resources openly available. It is aimed at senior …

Recommendation for the Safeguarding and Preservation of Moving Image Materials

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Foundations 3. Definitions and Terms 4. The Audiovisual Archive 5. Preservation: Exploring Nature and Concept 6. Management Principles 7. Ethics 8. Conclusion. These are the formal recommendations in the UNESCO constitution concerning the protection of motion picture materials. These recommendations offer cultural heritage institutions official support when establishing or maintaining an audiovisual archive. Their audience is …

IPI Storage Guide for Acetate Film

Contents: What the guide is (and is not) The Wheel &nbsp Time Contours for Vinegar Syndrome&nbsp The Time Out of Storage Table Chemical Deterioration of Film Bases &nbsp The Course of the Vinegar Syndrome&nbsp Does the Guide Apply to Nitrate Film?&nbsp Polyester Based Film&nbsp The General Philosophy of Film Storage&nbsp History of Film Supports&nbsp References&nbsp ANSI and ISO Standards. Een …

The Archival Appraisal of Moving Images: a RAMP study with guidelines

Contents: Forward 1. History and Organization of Moving Image Archives 2. Appraisal Standards and Archival Theory 3. Typology of Archival Moving Images 4. Appraisal Policies and Practices 5. Records Management and the Appraisal of Moving Images 6. Related Documentation 7. Conclusions and Guidelines Bibliography. This work presents a comparative study of past and present appraisal, selection and retention policies and …

Footage.net

Footage.net is an online aggregator of stock footage databases, providing footage researchers to search over 35 stock footage archives (with nearly 10 million records in 2014) simultaneously. The Solr search engine is deployed to enhance the search functionality, a.o. to deliver fast search results, to offer faceted search (to filter search results by keywords, categories, dates and content partners), key …