Building Workflows for Digitization and Digital Preservation – Memnon and DR

This is the presentation given by Michel Merten (Memnon) and Tobias Golodnoff (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) as part of the Building Workflows for Digitisation and Digital Preservation session at Screening the Future 2011. In this presentation, Merten and Golodnoff discuss the DAT Digitisation project of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, and Memnon’s technical and planning involvement. The presentation includes the key steps …

Local Television: A Guide to Saving our Heritage

Contents: Section 1: Twenty Questions (to judge your station’s historical quotient) Section 2: Next Steps Toward Saving Our Local Television Heritage Section 3: Resources, Where to go for Help Section 4: Case Studies of Saved Local Television Collections. This guide provides guidance on managing local television collections in a practical way. A practical guide on how to establish an audiovisual …

The Archival Appraisal of Moving Images: a RAMP study with guidelines

Contents: Forward 1. History and Organization of Moving Image Archives 2. Appraisal Standards and Archival Theory 3. Typology of Archival Moving Images 4. Appraisal Policies and Practices 5. Records Management and the Appraisal of Moving Images 6. Related Documentation 7. Conclusions and Guidelines Bibliography. This work presents a comparative study of past and present appraisal, selection and retention policies and …

Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-term Strategies for Long-term Problems

Contents: Introduction 1. Setting the Stage 2. Terms and Concepts 3. Obsolescence 4. Foundations 5. Challenges 6. Program Elements Conclusions. Een ’tutorial’  met het oogmerk organisaties te helpen een degelijk programma op te zetten (geen project) voor digitaal behoud. Er wordt in benadrukt dat voor een duurzame benadering niet alleen een technologische infrastructuur is vereist, maar dat er ook menskracht …

Preservation 101- Preservation Basics for Paper and Media Collections

Preservation 101 is an online course that will help you learn about the basics of preservation in the context of small and moderately-sized library or archival collections. This course was produced as one component of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded to the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC). The grant supported training and resources for …

DCC Digital Curation Manual. File Formats

Contents: Introduction and scope Background and developments to date Documentation of formats Format relationships Development of preservation friendly formats How the topic applies to Digital Curation Format identification Format validation Characterization Assessment Topic in action Standardization Ingest workflow Preservation strategies Notification and recommendation systems Next steps Future developments Conclusions References: Print, Online Fora Terminology An annotated list of key external …