Unesco Audiovisual Archives Programme

  This is the website of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) programme for Audiovisual Archives. This Programme seeks to preserve the audiovisual heritage comprising film, television and sound recordings. The adoption by the UNESCO General Conference in October 1980 of the Recommendation for the Safeguarding and Preservation of Moving Images marked a historic moment when film, …

The Economics of Long-Term Digital Storage

Kryder’s Law refers to the rapid increase in areal storage density of digital storage media in the past decades and has often been used in digital preservation economic forecasts. Presented at UNESCO’s conference ‘Memory of the World in the Digital Age”, this paper presents a growing body of evidence suggesting that Kryder’s Law will not necessarily hold in the future …

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 …

The Digital Dilemma 2: Independent Filmmakers, Documentarians and Nonprofit Audiovisual Archives

Contents: Preface Executive Summary 1. Independent Filmmakers 2. Documentarians 3. Marketing and Distributing Independent Films 4. Nonprofit Audiovisual Archives 5. Progress Report and Interim Options 6. Closing Appendix: Case Studies Online Appendix End Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements This report was produced through a partnership between the Library of Congress’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and the Academy of …

AV Digitisation and Digital Preservation TechWatch Report #03

Through the development of communities of practice during 2014, the Presto4U project has gathered information regarding the shape and scale of technical challenges faced by the audiovisual archiving community. In parallel, we have taken a deep dive into the technology supply side to gather information on products in the market today to see where research is heading that will hopefully solve the challenges that …