Folkstreams Guide to Best Practices in Film Digitization

Contents: 1.0 Background 2.0 Discovering and acquiring films 3.0 Film and video digitization 4.0 Website Infrastructure 5.0 Metadata 6.0 Preservation 7.0 Advertising and Outreach 8.0 Evaluation 9.0 Appendices and links 10. Works cited and bibliography This guide describes how the Folkstreams project selects, acquires, digitizes and provides access to documentary films about American folk or roots cultures. It addresses selection …

Archipelproject: Social Impact & Examples (Preserving our History in a Sustainable Digital Way series)

Video is titled “Teaser” on YouTube Archipel is a project based on the finding that a sustainable digital archive infrastructure is needed in Flanders in order to ensure a structural approach to the problem of digital archiving. The  project is also based on the fact that there is an important role for players from the world of arts, cultural and …

Archipelproject: Introduction (Preserving our History in a Sustainable Digital Way series)

Archipel is a project based on the finding that a sustainable digital archive infrastructure is needed in Flanders in order to ensure a structural approach to the problem of digital archiving. The  project is also based on the fact that there is an important role for players from the world of arts, cultural and scientific heritage and education in the …