Contents: What is this document? Video preservation in a digital context Practice variation at the Library and in the wider community Options for an interim approach About classes and categories Category 1. Analog source Category 2. Digital source (media dependent, non-transcoded transfer possible Category 3. Digital source (media dependent, transcoded transfer required Category 4. Digital source (media independent “file based”) …
AV Insider 3: Preservation Technology – Making the Connection
AV Insider is a quarterly magazine for the audiovisual digital preservation community. AV Insider issue 3 (January 2013) is themed “Preservation Technology: Making the Connection”. It gives an insight into the challenges faced and the actions required to bring AV preservation technology (tools, techniques, systems) out of laboratories and into practical applications for AV archivists. This issue also introduces a …
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. …