Free webinars from the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). Webinar recordings are available at no cost 6 months after the original presentation You can find recordings of past Preservation Week webinars on YouTube. Libraries are encouraged to use any of these free recordings as part of their programming. More relevant videos can be found under the Playlist …
This report presents the proposals and subsequent discussions from the Home Movie Digitization & Access Summit held at the Library of Congress’s Packard Campus in September 2010. The summit consisted of two days of presentations, discussions and screenings. The questions posed to the attendees were: “What would be needed (to do, have, spend, work around, etc.) in order to …
This guide describes what multimedia formats are and explains on which basis a suitable format is chosen. Two video formats (MPEG-4 and Theora) are examined and a number of practical examples are described. The work ends with a summary of the most popular file formats.
This document describes a phenomenon knows as a ‘Digital Audio Interstitial Error’ which occurs when a digital audio stream is being written to disc. It makes the case that such an error is more prevalent than spoken of in the preservation community and that no tool exists to properly detect it at present. It also suggests a possible solution …
Contents: Introduction Benefits of shared practices Documentation: Getting to shared PREMIS-METS practices A tool for PREMIS-implementing METS profiles The Checklist Conclusion Appendix A: Highlights from an analysis of PREMIS usage in METS Registered Profiles Notes To help those implementing, or considering implementing, PREMIS in METS the author (working at Statistics New Zealand) designed a tool consisting of a checklist. This …
Contents: Technische omschrijving Video formaten Audio formaten Loudness Tijdcode Aan- en uitloopgedeelte Bestandnaamgevingsconventie Extra computerbestanden Aanvullende informatie Deze technische aanbeveling voor het file-based uitwisselen van content binnen de Nederlandse AV-branche is opgesteld in het kader van het project 10-10-10 en zet diverse internationale standaarden in. Zo beveelt men voor de uitwisseling van video content MXF aan en voor de codering …
