Preservation Case Studies for Archives is an innovative educational experience that places the student in the role of the decision maker. Through a dynamic process of idea exchange, students first learn about the situation, then identify and analyse the problems to determine the causes, and finally develop alternative strategies for a solution. Preservation Case Studies for Archives provides the context …
Digital Preservation: Online Resources
If you are new to the world of digital preservation, you may be feeling overwhelmed by the multitude of technical terms and professional practices to contend with, and the fact that standards never seem to stay in place for very long. Fortunately, there are many resources related to digital preservation available on the internet. Unfortunately, the large amount of websites, …
Taking a Long-term Perspective – Maintaining Digital Assets by Managing their Evolving Digital Ecosystems
As digital content and its related metadata are generated and used across different phases of the information lifecycle, and in a continually evolving digital environment, the concept of a fixed and stable ‘final’ version that needs to be preserved becomes less appropriate. As well as dealing with technological change and obsolescence, long-term sustainability requires us to address changes in context. …
Planning for Preservation at the Irish Film Archive
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 …
The National Moving Image Survey Report (Ireland)
The National Moving Image Survey Report, a detailed picture of Ireland’s rich film and video heritage collections, was launched by the Irish Film Institute (IFI). This hugely significant document gives a unique insight into the quantity, quality and content of moving image collections held by individuals and organisations across the country. As a result of the survey, a database of …