The Snell & Wilcox handbook series contains several excellent resources on digitisation and digital file formats. This document on MPEG Encoding explains all MPEG basics and answers important questions on standards and processing.
Digital Video Archives: Managing Through Metadata
Contents: Executive summary Introduction Metadata for digital video Dublin Core Video Production Standardization Efforts MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 Standards for Web-Based Metadata Distribution Case-study : Informedia Preserving digital data Conclusion References Overzichtsartikel, in het kader van het Informedia project, over de potentie van diverse vormen van automatische indexering voor het preserveren van digitale video archieven en voor het aanbieden van efficiëntere …
Texas Archive of Moving Image (TAMI)
Contents: Videos News Events Education Digitization Preservation Round-up Contribute About This non-profit organization was founded in 2002 to discover, preserve, provide access to, and educate the community about Texas’ film heritage. The film archivist and University of Texas at Austin professor Dr. Caroline Frick started the initiative and is the executive director of this film archive. The online collection includes home …
Videotape Preservation Handbook
Contents: I. Introduction II. Videotape: A Brief History of Videotape Recording Videotape Formats Tape Types Tape Life The Most Common Tape Problems III. Preservation Management: 1. Environment 2. Care and Handling 3. Risk Management 4. Reformatting 5. Emergency Preparedness IV. Appendices This handbook, originally published in a slightly different form as ‘factsheets’ provides guidelines concerning the primary issues concerning videotape …
Preservation of the web. Issues for audiovisual archives
Contents: I.The Infinitie library II. Digital heritage   III. Who preserves the web   IV. Web archiving in broadcast organisations   V. The audiovisual archive as media-archive   VI. Conceptual issues VII. Concluding remarks. Beknopt document waarin de problematiek van het archiveren van websites door audiovisuele (omroep)archieven wordt beschreven vanuit conceptueel, organisatorisch en praktisch oogpunt. De uitdagingen zijn helder samengevat, …
The Next Stage: Moving from Isolated Digital Collections to Interoperable Digital Libraries
Contents: 1. What is a Library? 2. Brief Digital Library History 3. Moving Toward a More User-centric Architecture 4. General Processes and Stages of Technological Development 5. The Importance of Standards 6. The Next Stage: Moving from Isolated Digital Collections to Interoperable Digital Libraries. This article which appeared in the online journal First Monday (Volume 17, Number 6, June 2002) …