In this webinar, Raelene Casey talks about the process the Irish Film Institute went through to develop and put on paper its preservation plans. The IFI Irish Film Archive published its new Digital Preservation & Access Strategy, which outlines its response to the challenges and opportunities of archiving vast quantities of moving image material in a digital environment, in June 2015.
This crucial document was the result of several years of intensive research by the Archive team and outlines a long-term plan as well as a set of guiding principles, flexibility, scalability and sustainability, to assist the organisation in preserving and providing access to Ireland’s digital moving image material.
Throughout 2014 the IFI Irish Film Archive installed its core digital infrastructure, which includes a fibre-optic network, high volume digital storage and an upgrade of the Archive’s digital restoration capabilities, to radically improve its ability to care for and provide access to its expanding digital collections.
Raelene specifically focuses on the processes involved in applying the OAIS standard for Digital Preservation in the archive, outlining the process and methodology involved in developing the archive’s digital strategy and policies to ensure the long term preservation and management of its high resolution digital film and broadcast assets and associated metadata.
Presenter: Raelene Casey – Digital Collections and Access Manager at the Irish Film Archive
Raelene has been working in the exhibition, access and preservation of film in Ireland for 15 years. In her current role as Digital Collections and Access Manager in the IFI Irish Film Archive, she is responsible for the digital preservation, access and digitisation of the nation’s film collections. She has an MA in Film and Television Studies from Dublin City University and is co-author of the 2015 paper ‘Future Proof: The Transition to Digital at IFI Archive’.
About the Winter School for AV Archiving
The Winter School is an initiative from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. It provides audiovisual collection managers with the necessary knowledge and skills to implement or improve the digital preservation management of their audiovisual collections. This edition of the Winter School focuses on implementing preservation policies.