Contents: Introduction Logical Structure ISO9660 Joliet/HFS UDF CD-DA Applications in Preservation Workflows Future Research Appendix References This article provides a broad overview of optical media in the context of archival migration. It begins by introducing the logical structure of compact discs, providing the context and language necessary to discuss the medium. The article then explores the most common data formats …
AV Digitisation and Digital Preservation TechWatch Report #03
Through the development of communities of practice during 2014, the Presto4U project has gathered information regarding the shape and scale of technical challenges faced by the audiovisual archiving community. In parallel, we have taken a deep dive into the technology supply side to gather information on products in the market today to see where research is heading that will hopefully solve the challenges that …
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 …
Webinar: Choosing your file format
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 …
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 …
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 …