The UK Digital Production Partnership has commissioned a study on the impact of cloud on broadcast. It’s a very good read and includes discussion of archive storage including explicit discussion of standards. It also covers various other areas such as how the Cloud technology may impact on the market. The report provides interesting parallels to what we’re looking at in …
Protect Your Data: Information Security and the Boundaries of your Storage System
How are we defining a Storage System? What are you keeping in it? What is it made from and, exactly, what are the controls on access to the data? Jane Mandelbaum, IT Project Manager at the Library of Congress, try to answer these and other questions with plenty of information for planning your personal digital preservation. It is intended to be …
Feet On The Ground: A Practical Approach To The Cloud
When evaluating cloud storage providers, it is dangerous to assume such services are only storage and therefore uncomplicated or that requirements for storage are obvious and therefore inherently met by the service provider. Experience with any technology selection will prove the opposite. No two services are the same and the variance between services often represents the difference between successful implementation …
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, …
AV Digitisation and Digital Preservation TechWatch Report #04
The IBC, or International Broadcasting Convention, is Europe’s largest professional broadcast fair. Held annually in September in Amsterdam, the trade show saw a record year in 2016, with 56,000 in attendance over the five days of exhibition and conference activities. The buzz at the show was that things are picking up again after the disruption of the past decade, where the financial turbulence and …