The ENUMERATE Survey Report on Digitisation in Cultural Heritage Institutions 2012 represents the first major study into the current state of digitisation in Europe. It is the result of a survey carried out by the ENUMERATE Thematic Network, with the help of national coordinators, in 29 European countries. About 2000 institutions answered the open call to participate between January and March 2012. The survey asked …
Contents: Introduction Preservation OAIS Authenticity and integrity Information packages Workflow schemas Developing a Preservation Metadata Dictionary Important Findings To Conclude About the Authors After a short introduction into the role of this audiovisual archive, the authors, who form the core of Sound and Vision’s Information Management Team, describe how the organisation has taken up the challenge to become a trustworthy …
Contents: Introduction 1. EUscreen Content and Workflow 2. The Front-end Design 3. The Linked Open Data Pilot 4. Conclusions and future work References The EUscreen initiative represents the European television archives and acts as a domain aggregator for Europeana, Europe’s digital library, which provides access to over 20 million digitized cultural objects. The main motivation for the initiative is to …
This report presents the research findings concerning a fire exercise the National Archives of Australia held in association with ACT Emergency Services Agency (ESA) in 2012. The purpose of the exercise was to examine questions relating to the fire protection provided by of storage materials and furniture. A range of box types, furniture types and surrogate materials were included in …
The basic steps for planning, funding, and carrying out a preservation project are: make a map of the collection, and sort contents into groups according to type and condition; arrange the groups in priority order according to the urgency of their preservation needsd (triage); work out what needs to be done for each group: a preservation strategy; and state exactly how the work will be …
These guidelines, launched March 2013, encourage best practice in citing any kind of audiovisual items. They were produced by a project based at the British University Film and Video Council, based on an international study of citation requirements and best practice. The guidelines cover: film; television programmes; radio programmes; audio recordings; DVD extras; clips; trailers; adverts; idents; non-broadcast, amateur and archive …
