This report is for anyone with responsibility for collections of sound or moving image content and an interest in preservation of that content. New content is born digital, analogue audio and video need digitisation to survive and film requires digitisation for access. Consequently, digital preservation will be relevant over time to all these areas. The report concentrates on digitisation, encoding, file formats and …
Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS)
The OAIS (Open Archival Information System) Reference Model was developed by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) as a first step towards generating formal standards for the long-term archiving of Space Science data. It is a conceptual framework rather than a fully-fledged, prescriptive standard, and is intended to identify the necessary features of an archival information system rather …
The Bloodless Revolution: A Guide to Smoother Digital Workflows in Television.
The DPP wanted to provide some clarity on how to adapt to end-to-end file-based workflows and set out to provide some guidelines that highlight the challenges in file-based production and identify and share the different means currently used to address them.
AV Insider 1: Play, Pause and Press Forward
AV Insider is a quarterly magazine for the audiovisual digital preservation community. “Play, Pause and Press Forward” is the theme of the first issue (May 2012) and focuses on how current shifts in the domain today are influencing the possibilities of tomorrow. Get insight in the future of AV digitisation and preservation ― for key archives and how their digital …
AV Insider 2: Preservation in Times of Precarity
AV Insider is a quarterly magazine for the audiovisual digital preservation community. AV Insider issue 2 (September 2012) is themed “Preservation in Times of Precarity”. The issue addresses the various challenges of AV organisations in the context of the current global financial crisis. How do we continue the significant preservation work when our budgets become tighter and tighter? What ways …
Preservation Workflows at the Library of Congress
This webinar presents the preservation workflow practices of one of the largest archives in the world: the Library of Congress. Focusing on the Library of Congress’ National Audio Visual Conservation Center, this webinar discusses the workflow challenges faced while digitising and preserving more than 6 million audiovisual items. Learning Objectives: Have a basic knowledge of the preservation workflows applied by …