This report focuses on the preservation of, and the access to European cinematographic heritage. The report is based on a survey launched in January 2011 to assess the impact of digitisation for European film archives. The survey was conducted by peacefulfish Productions Ltd, subcontractors were Red Cat Technologies, the University of Helsinki/IPR University Center and the external expert Nicola Mazzanti. …
Goodbye, Dawson City, Goodbye
This article from the April 2011 issue of the AMIA Tech Review has as its subtitle Digital Cinema Technologies from the Archive’s Perspective: Part 2. It opens with twelve ‘lessons’ learned concerning the long term preservation and management of digital cinema works. They are followed by what the author calls ‘thinking out loud’: eight ‘worries’ about analog collection management resulting …
Meeting the Challenge of Media Preservation: Strategies and Solutions
In 2009, Indiana University Bloomington published a report documenting the findings of a campus-wide census of audio, video, and film holdings which identified more than 560,000 media objects, most of them on degrading, obsolete analogue carriers. In 2010, Indiana University began a preservation planning process for time-based media holdings, engaging key campus stakeholders. The results of the first year of …
What’s Your Product? Assessing the suitability of a More Product, Less Process methodology for processing audiovisual collection
“The widely referenced and adopted More Product, Less Process methodology (MPLP) represents a much needed evolution in the manner of processing archival collections in order to overcome backlogs and resource shortfalls that institutions face. In the case of audiovisual-based collections, however, the ability to plan budgets, timelines, equipment needs, and other preservation plans that unequivocally impact access is directly tied …
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 …
The Digital Dilemma 2: Perspectives from Independent Filmmakers, Documentarians and Nonprofit Audiovisual Archives
The Academy has made the this extensive and valuable report available for free download via quick registration on their website. “The Digital Dilemma 2 focuses on the more acute challenges faced by independent filmmakers, documentarians and nonprofit audiovisual archives. While 75 percent of theatrically released motion pictures are independently produced, these communities typically lack the resources, personnel and funding …