Contents: About the Author Acknowledgements Forward Executive Summary Introduction The Silent Film Era Comes to an End Overview of What Has Been Lost Methodology, Definitions, and Scope of This Study Findings Additional Considerations Conclusions and Recommendations Appendix: FIAF Archives Reporting Holdings of American silent Feature films Photo Credits This report, commissioned for and sponsored by The National Film Preservation Board …
Contents: 1 Description 1.1 Automatic interlinking 1.2 Putting the archive online 1.3 Crowdsourcing 2 Appendix The BBC World Service radio archive includes around 70,000 English-language programmes from over 45 years. The metadata around this archive was sparse (catalogue descriptions) and sometimes wrong, but the full audio content available in digital form. To be able to provide proper online access, BBC …
Contents: Introduction UniquelyAudio/Video Singapore Content The Challenges of Audio/Video Content About FFmpeg Who is Using FFmpeg Basic Audio/Video Content Processing Advanced Audio/Video Processing Conclusion This article, written by two staff members of the Singapore National Library Board, dept of Technology & Innovation, describes how the open-source software FFmpeg has been implemented to help manage the library’s digital audiovisual assets. It …
Contents: Scope Executive Summary 1. Research Outputs Identification 2. Assessment Criteria 3. Results of Research Outputs Assessment – Year 1 4. Presto4U Dataset 5. Conclusion and Future Work This deliverable from the Presto4U project assesses “research output” (RO) tools in the digital audiovisual preservation domain designed to help solve problems faced by the project’s “Communities of Practice”. Such output includes …
Contents: Summary of Sabbatical Project Background Literature Review Survey Results Phone Interview Responses: Challenges, Funding, Staffing, Preservation Metadata, Digital Preservation Systems and Tools Collaborative Digital Preservation Efforts Digital Preservation Services Conclusions and next steps Works Cited Survey Results Digital Preservation Tools List The author undertook a sabbatical to study the current state of digital preservation practices in a variety of …
Contents: 1. Executive Summary 2. Rationale of the DAVID Project 3. State of the Art on damage prevention and repair: 3.1 Understanding how damage occurs and what impact it has on digital AV Content 3.2 Risk Management for longterm quality assurance and interoperable preservation metadata for digital AV content 3.3 Scalable tools for damage protection, repair and quality improvement of …
