Digitising Video for Long-Term Preservation: An RFP Guide and Template

This guide is intended to take an institution step-by-step through the process of drafting a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the transfer of analog video — specifically VHS — to digital carriers for preservation. The template can be used by libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions and submitted to qualified transfer vendors. It should instill a bit more confidence in …

Webinar: Essence quality control for AV archive digitisation, migration and exploitation

This recorded webinar is an introduction to essence (baseband) quality control (QC) in the context of audiovisual preservation. It will start with the role of essence QC in the use cases video archive digitisation, digital migration, content selection and use. Currently available and emerging functionalities will be presented. Strategies for cost-efficient implementation of essence QC will be introduced, and showing …

Webinar: Choosing your file format

This webinar was organised in celebration of World Audiovisual Heritage Day 2014. The recording focuses on standardisation efforts for broadcast file preservation formats and offers a real-life example of an audiovisual archive selecting its preservation format. In it, broadcast archive specialists lead you into the topic of file selection. For many archives in the digital domain a recurring question is …

Creation of Master Archive Package (MAP)

This webinar recording describes the process of creating a MAP (Master Archive package) JPEG2000 archival element in the Fraunhofer JPEG2000 software suite and discusses the benefits and drawback of this process and the use of MAPs as a standard for the preservation of digital film. While DCP (Digital Cinema Package) is a universally adopted format for digital film distribution, many …