Digital Preservation at the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation

The Library of Congress’s Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation preserves digital collections as well as film, video and sound recordings. This video is an overview of the process the digital files go through, from ingest or scanning to the repository of this state-of-the-art facility. Interesting for anyone in the audiovisual digital preservation domain.

Digital Curation and the Citizen Archivist

The increasing array and power of personal digital recordkeeping systems promises both to make it more difficult for established archives to acquire personal and family archives and less likely that individuals might wish to donate personal and family digital archives to archives, libraries, museums, and other institutions serving as documentary repositories. This paper provides a conceptual argument for how projects …

Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage (DOCAM)

The mission of the DOCAM Research Alliance has been to identify and implement five research axes and propose tools, guides and methods that contribute to the preservation of the media arts heritage. The axes are conservation, documentation, cataloguing, history of technologies and terminology. The website contains cataloguing and conservation guides as well as a technological timeline and a documentation model. …

Handbook for digital projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access

This handbook, created by the Northeast Document Convention Center (NEDCC), serves as a management tool for institutions concerned with preservation-and-access issues. The goal was to produce an easy-to-use primer focused on meeting the information needs of libraries, museums, archives, and other collection holding institutions. This manual is intended to serve as a resource and response. It can help administrators and …

Enduring Paradigm, New Opportunities: The Value of the Archival Perspective in the Digital Environment

Contents: Preface&nbsp Executive Summary&nbsp Introduction&nbsp The Societal Role of Archives&nbsp The Archival Paradigm-Genesis, Rationales and Evolution of Archival Principles&nbsp Utitlity of the Archival Paradigm in the Digital Environment&nbsp Achieving the Full Potential of Cross-Community Developments in the Digital Community&nbsp Summary&nbsp References. Dit rapoport beschrijft het maatschappelijke belang van archieven en de kracht van het inzetten van archivale principes bij het …

Building a National Strategy for Digital Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving

Contents: Preface Summary of Findings Preserving Digital Periodicals E-Books and the Challenge of Preservation Archiving the World Wide Web Preservation of Digitally Recorded Sound Understanding the Preservation Challenge of Digital Television Digital Video Archives: Managing Through Metadata. Een verzameling achtergrondartikelen, bijeengebracht door de Library of Congress als input bij het bepalen van een nationale digitale behoudstrategie door verschillende stakeholders. Het …