Een kort en goed overzicht van de eisen die audiovisuele archieven moetenstellen aan de digitale opslag-industrie. De onderliggende gedachte is dat AV-archieven hun opslagfunctionaliteit kunnen uitbesteden onder bepaalde condities, te weten: garantie op duurzaamheid en courantheid (‘ persistence’ en ‘currency’ ) alsmede duidelijke informatie over de daaraan verbonden kosten. Goede introductie tot het onderwerp ‘digitaal contentmanagement’ voor niet-technici. Het stuk is geschreven om …
Archivists who work with audiovisual records often find themselves confronting a challenge their counterparts who deal with traditional paper records do not have. They must often act as “bucket brigades”—chasing one “fire” after another as rapidly changing technology threatens to render the media formats storing audiovisual records obsolete and inaccessible. What these archivists face is the daunting task of preserving—and …
The analog-to-digital (A/D) converter lies at the heart of the encoding side of a digital audio system, and is perhaps the most critical component in the entire signal chain. The A/D converter must discretely sample the analog signal, quantify the amplitude of the sample, and represent the measurement as a binary word. Whereas conversions made with the A/D converter’s counterpart—the …
EAI’s Online Resource Guide for Exhibiting, Collecting & Preserving Media Art addresses key issues and brings together information on current practices and critical dialogue relating to single-channel video, computer-based art and media installation. The Preservation section was created by IMAP (Independent Media Arts Preservation), a nonprofit resource for preserving electronic media. The Guide features a range of essential information: Best …
The purpose of this article is to provide basic information on the possible benefits of employing content analysis techniques for documenting television and radio archives. It is based on the considerable experience gained by RAI over recent years in this field. The article also looks analytically at the impact these new archive documentation techniques will have on traditional working practices.
This chapter from the Digital Curation Manual, File Formats, begins with a conceptual framework for format and then goes on to discuss different aspects of format description, validation and characterization. It explains how format relates to the long term curation and usability of digital data and includes overviews of related projects and developments in the field as well as describing …
