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 …

The NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation: An Explanation and Uses

Contents: Introduction and Background Comparison of Existing Models Levels of Digital Preservation Using the Guidelines Feedback and Future Work Acknowledgements References This document presents a tiered set of guidelines and practices, in a one-page matrix, intended to offer clear, baseline instructions on preserving digital content. It is structured into four progressive levels of sophistication: 1) Protect your data ; 2) …

Guide to Developing a Request for Proposal for the Digitization of Video (and More)

Contents: About the Client 1. Brief Description 2. Timeline 3. Client Point of Contact 4. Communication Protocol 5. Care, Handling and Storage 6. Media Issues 7. Reformatting 8. Head and Tail Content 9. Reference Files 10. Directory Structure and File Naming 11. Metadata 12. Vendor Quality Assurance and Control 13. Delivery 14. RFP Response 15. Vendor Qualifications and Past Performance …

Interstitial Error Study Volume I. The Study Report

Contents: Background Introduction Prototype Test Setup Process and Methodology Timeline for Each Test Site Analysis Methodology Findings Conclusions Next Steps Community Support and Action Welcome This is volume one of a two volume report. It describes the field test carried out in the summer of 2012 that set out to document the occurrence of interstitial errors in digital audio files, …

Web-Archiving

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Issues 3. Standards 4. Software 5. Case Studies 6. Conclusions and Recommendations 7. Glossary 8. References and Bibliography This report introduces and discusses the key issues, for example selection, limitations of current crawlers, authenticity, temporal coherence, viruses and de-duplication, faced by organizations engaged in web archiving initiatives. Section 4 presents available integrated systems, like PANDORA Digital …