This webinar was organised in celebration of World Audiovisual Heritage Day 2014. The recording focuses on standardisation efforts for broadcast file preservation formats and offers a real-life example of an audiovisual archive selecting its preservation format. In it, broadcast archive specialists lead you into the topic of file selection. For many archives in the digital domain a recurring question is …
To standardise or not: is normalisation of video a thing of the past?
This recorded webinar will examine the question of whether it makes sense to produce a standardised copy of a digital video file for preservation within the context of collections of video artworks. In the world of digital video tape, this was done to provide a safety copy, often to provide a more robust uncompressed version and also to streamline future …
2014 Report on Digitisation, Online Accessibility and Digital Preservation of Cultural Material
The European Commission monitors progress in the area of Digitisation, Online Accessibility and Digital Preservation of Cultural Material. This 2014 Status Report shows that there has been an increase of digitisation plans and overviews of digitised material, more cross-border collaboration and public-private partnerships as well as pooling of digitisation efforts through competence centres or specific aggregators. Web visibility of cultural …
Guidelines for the creation of an institutional policy on digital preservation
Nestor – the Network of Expertise in Long-Term Storage have created a guideline that provides digital archives, irrespective of their particular organisational set-up or range of tasks, with assistance in creating their own institutional policy on digital preservation. It tackles the questions: What is the purpose of a policy? What must a policy cover? How is a policy produced? An institutional preservation policy in the …
AV Insider 5: New Challenges for the Audiovisual Archivist
AV Insider is a quarterly magazine for the audiovisual digital preservation community. AV Insider Issue 5 (July 2014) is a special 44 pages summer edition about the new challenges for the audiovisual archivist: New support roles for the AV community Where can you find old manuals? How do you increase your digital maturity level? What we can learn from other practitioner communities …
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 …