The Higher Education Academy and JISC have been working in partnership to support the HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resources programme. This InfoKit offers an overview on Open Educations Resources (OERs) and the issues surrounding them. It explores management, legal and technical issues you will need to consider when planning to make your educational resources openly available. It is aimed at senior …
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Foundations 3. Definitions and Terms 4. The Audiovisual Archive 5. Preservation: Exploring Nature and Concept 6. Management Principles 7. Ethics 8. Conclusion. These are the formal recommendations in the UNESCO constitution concerning the protection of motion picture materials. These recommendations offer cultural heritage institutions official support when establishing or maintaining an audiovisual archive. Their audience is …
Contents: What the guide is (and is not) The Wheel   Time Contours for Vinegar Syndrome  The Time Out of Storage Table Chemical Deterioration of Film Bases   The Course of the Vinegar Syndrome  Does the Guide Apply to Nitrate Film?  Polyester Based Film  The General Philosophy of Film Storage  History of Film Supports  References  ANSI and ISO Standards. Een …
Contents: Forward 1. History and Organization of Moving Image Archives 2. Appraisal Standards and Archival Theory 3. Typology of Archival Moving Images 4. Appraisal Policies and Practices 5. Records Management and the Appraisal of Moving Images 6. Related Documentation 7. Conclusions and Guidelines Bibliography. This work presents a comparative study of past and present appraisal, selection and retention policies and …
Footage.net is an online aggregator of stock footage databases, providing footage researchers to search over 35 stock footage archives (with nearly 10 million records in 2014) simultaneously. The Solr search engine is deployed to enhance the search functionality, a.o. to deliver fast search results, to offer faceted search (to filter search results by keywords, categories, dates and content partners), key …
The series of Snell& Wilcox handbooks is a series of very detailed instruction manuals on digitisation, aimed at engineers.
