Audiovisual Heritage 2.0

Contents: Lead Article: Public Sector Information and Audiovisual Archives Related Reporting : The Digitisation of our Heritage ZOOM: Audiovisual Works and teh European Directive on Certain Permitted Uses of Orphan Works The lead article describes the main lines of the amended Directive on the re-use of public sector information. The scope of application of the revised PSI Directive (Directive 2013/37/EU) …

D4.2 Guidelines for an A-Z digitisation workflow for contemporary artworks

Contents: 0. Executive summary 1. Introduction 2. Determining digitisation goals 3. Developing a project plan 4. Defining the selection 5. Clearing copyright 6. Analysing the artworks and contextual documents to be digitised 7. Preparing the artworks to be digitised 8. Defining quality parameters 9. Digitisation 10. Digital restoration 11. Quality control 12. Creating access copies 13. Submitting the digital files …

Assessing the Audiovisual Archive Market : Models and Approaches for Audiovisual Content Exploitation

Contents: Introduction Assessment and Valuation Mining Value Learning from Business Towards a new set of Tools : The AV Archive Genomic Decoder The Openometer Use-A-Tron The AV Asset Evaluator The Audiovisual Asset Playbook Recommendations Conclusion References This paper presents an overview of the current practices of AV archives on examining, appreciating, and embracing business and commercial interactions. It describes the …

Preservation Metadata Second Edition

Contents: Abstract Executive Summary 1. Background 2. Preservation Metadata Schema Development 2.1 Preservation metadata element sets 2.2 OAIS 2.3 A framework for preservation metadata 3. The PREMIS Data Dictionary 3.1 Introduction to the Data Dictionary 3.2 Revisions of the PREMIS Data Dictionary 3.3 Outreach 3.4 Packaging preservation metadata: METS and PREMIS Tools to Support PREMIS Implementation 3.6 PREMIS Implementations 3.7 …

Building a Sustainable Metadata Workflow for Audio-visual Resources: University of Illinois Library’s Medusa Digital Preservation Repository

Contents: Introduction Background Pilot Project: The WILL Transcription Disc Collection Digital Preservation Repository Choosing a Metadata Standard On Closer Inspection: Additional Metadata Concerns Project Workflow Lessons Learned This paper, submitted to the IFLA WLIC 2013 meeting, describes how the University of Illinois Urbana decided on the MODS descriptive metadata standard for its audio-visual files. Once the university joined the Medusa …

Web Archiving Blog Roundup

Overview of thirteen blogs where web archivists from all over the world are speaking out about issues they encounter, uses of archives, and innovations in tools and technologies. Six blogs report on web archiving only: Australia’s Web Archives ; Internet Archive Blogs ; Internet Memory Foundation Blogs ; Portugese Web Archive ; UK Web Archive Blog and WebArchiv (in Czech). …