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 …
AV Insider is a quarterly magazine for the audiovisual digital preservation community. AV Insider issue 3 (January 2013) is themed “Preservation Technology: Making the Connection”. It gives an insight into the challenges faced and the actions required to bring AV preservation technology (tools, techniques, systems) out of laboratories and into practical applications for AV archivists. This issue also introduces a …
Contents: 1 Introduction 2 Related work 2.1 Concept-based video ranking functions 2.2 Uncertainty in text retrieval 3 The uncertain representation ranking framework 4 Shot retrieval 5 Segment retrieval 6 Experiments 7 Discussion 8 Conclusions References As concept based video retrieval often relies on imperfect and uncertain concept detectors, the researchers propose in this paper a general ranking framework to define …
Contents: Lead Article: Public Sector Information and Audiovisual Archives Related Reporting : The Digitisation of our Heritage ZOOM: Audiovisual Works and teh European Directive on Certain Permitted Uses of Orphan Works The lead article describes the main lines of the amended Directive on the re-use of public sector information. The scope of application of the revised PSI Directive (Directive 2013/37/EU) …
