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 …

DCC Digital Curation Manual- File Formats

This chapter from the Digital Curation Manual, File Formats, begins with a conceptual framework for format and then goes on to discuss different aspects of format description, validation and characterization. It explains how format relates to the long term curation and usability of digital data and includes overviews of related projects and developments in the field as well as describing …

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 …

International Preservation News. Number 47. Preservation of Audiovisual Collections, Moving Images

Contents: One of two special editions (the other is number 46, on still images and sound recordings) of the IFLA publication International Preservation News, focussing on audiovisual archives. This issue concerns moving image archives. It includes a variety of articles, about projects, archives and general av preservation issues. The range of subjects taken together, offer an interesting overview of activity …