Audiovisual collections can run the gamut of formats, from analog audio, film, and video to digital audio, film, video, and optical media. This five-part course examines the various formats and explores the major issues and challenges in preserving them. A team of national experts helps you to navigate the mind-boggling array of AV materials and provide practical advice on identifying, …
Music and Sound Archives Community of Practice
Presentation of the Music and Sound Archives Community of Practice by Daniel Teruggi at the Presto4U Workshop ‘Digital Audiovisual Preservation in Communities of Practice: Learn, Collaborate and Share’. Including current problems and issues with an analysis of weak and strong needs regarding preservation and access; how interaction and collaboration can develop innovative solutions. Recommended for everyone within the domain of …
The Coming Storm – A report on the impact of cloud on broadcast
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 …
Digitisation and Digital Preservation Challenges at the BBC
This free webinar presents an overview of the key challenges and processes involved in digitisation and digital preservation through a real world case study from the BBC Broadcast Archive. The BBC has been copying from old videotape formats to new ones for over 20 years, but for most of that time they copied from analogue videotape to digital videotape. For …
FY2014 Preservation Statistics Survey Report
The Preservation Statistics Survey is an effort coordinated by the Preservation and Reformatting Section (PARS) of the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). Any cultural heritage institution in the United States conducting preservation activities was invited to complete this survey, which was open from January 20 through March 20, 2015. Questions focused …
Webinar: Essence quality control for AV archive digitisation, migration and exploitation
This recorded webinar is an introduction to essence (baseband) quality control (QC) in the context of audiovisual preservation. It will start with the role of essence QC in the use cases video archive digitisation, digital migration, content selection and use. Currently available and emerging functionalities will be presented. Strategies for cost-efficient implementation of essence QC will be introduced, and showing …