Contents: Single Channel Video Computer Based Arts Installation. Each of these sections has the following subsections: Introduction Best Practices Basic Questions Planning Process Condition Reports Budget Equip/Tech Issues Interviews Case Studies Articles. This site for media arts creators and collectors provides information for the preservation of single channel video artworks, computer based art and installation art. It presents best practices, …
Audio Analog-to-Digital Converter Performance Specification and Test Method
This document specifies a set of metrics and methods pertaining to the performance of the audio analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) used in preservation reformatting workflows. The metrics specified in the guideline pertain to the production of files using the highest quality ADC devices. It is the central element within the larger topic of audio digitisation system performance, which also includes the …
AV Insider 5: New Challenges for the Audiovisual Archivist
AV Insider is a quarterly magazine for the audiovisual digital preservation community. AV Insider Issue 5 (July 2014) is a special 44 pages summer edition about the new challenges for the audiovisual archivist: New support roles for the AV community Where can you find old manuals? How do you increase your digital maturity level? What we can learn from other practitioner communities …
Jisc Digital Media Infokit
This Jisc Digital Media Infokit provides a simple outline of what needs to be taken into account when undertaking more complex digitisation, offering technical advice relating to the digitisation and care of specific media formats; and advice on equipment. It is aimed at all levels of staff involved in high-level digitisation (HLD) with sections dedicated to addressing managerial and project …
AV Insider 6: TDR, Digital Preservation and the Soft Side of Technology
AV Insider is a quarterly magazine for the audiovisual digital preservation community. AV Insider Issue 6 (July 2015) is a special 31 pages edition about Trusted Digital Repositories, digital preservation and the soft side of technology: The challenges of becoming a Trusted Digital Repository Multimedia Preservation Application Format as metadata container Welcome to the jungle of preservation standards Automated metadata extraction and …
IASA-TC 06 Guidelines for the Preservation of Video Recordings
Archives hold original video recordings in a range of types, from media-dependent, carrier-based analogue videotapes to computer-file-based digital recordings. The appropriate preservation treatments for this array reflect the variation in the source recordings. For analogue videotapes, for example, digitisation is called for. Meanwhile, examples of digital file-based recording may require rewrapping into a fresh file “wrapper” or a combination of digital transcoding and rewrapping. When …