Building a National Strategy for Digital Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving

Contents: Preface Summary of Findings Preserving Digital Periodicals E-Books and the Challenge of Preservation Archiving the World Wide Web Preservation of Digitally Recorded Sound Understanding the Preservation Challenge of Digital Television Digital Video Archives: Managing Through Metadata. Een verzameling achtergrondartikelen, bijeengebracht door de Library of Congress als input bij het bepalen van een nationale digitale behoudstrategie door verschillende stakeholders. Het …

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) …

Preservation of the web. Issues for audiovisual archives

Contents: I.The Infinitie library II. Digital heritage &nbsp III. Who preserves the web &nbsp IV. Web archiving in broadcast organisations &nbsp V. The audiovisual archive as media-archive &nbsp 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, …

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 …

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 …