Contents: Plan Format Store Document Organize Collaborate Resources Glossary The Digital Moving Image Archives (DMIA) guide is designed for independent filmmakers to provide basic information about preserving digital data and to encourage collaboration with moving image archives. Rather than focus on individual file formats or specific “archival standard” formats, the purpose is to provide a road map for digital survival. …
Assessing the Audiovisual Archive Market : Models and Approaches for Audiovisual Content Exploitation
Contents: Introduction Assessment and Valuation Mining Value Learning from Business Towards a new set of Tools : The AV Archive Genomic Decoder The Openometer Use-A-Tron The AV Asset Evaluator The Audiovisual Asset Playbook Recommendations Conclusion References This paper presents an overview of the current practices of AV archives on examining, appreciating, and embracing business and commercial interactions. It describes the …
Preservation Metadata Second Edition
Contents: Abstract Executive Summary 1. Background 2. Preservation Metadata Schema Development 2.1 Preservation metadata element sets 2.2 OAIS 2.3 A framework for preservation metadata 3. The PREMIS Data Dictionary 3.1 Introduction to the Data Dictionary 3.2 Revisions of the PREMIS Data Dictionary 3.3 Outreach 3.4 Packaging preservation metadata: METS and PREMIS Tools to Support PREMIS Implementation 3.6 PREMIS Implementations 3.7 …
Building a Sustainable Metadata Workflow for Audio-visual Resources: University of Illinois Library’s Medusa Digital Preservation Repository
Contents: Introduction Background Pilot Project: The WILL Transcription Disc Collection Digital Preservation Repository Choosing a Metadata Standard On Closer Inspection: Additional Metadata Concerns Project Workflow Lessons Learned This paper, submitted to the IFLA WLIC 2013 meeting, describes how the University of Illinois Urbana decided on the MODS descriptive metadata standard for its audio-visual files. Once the university joined the Medusa …
Web Archiving Blog Roundup
Overview of thirteen blogs where web archivists from all over the world are speaking out about issues they encounter, uses of archives, and innovations in tools and technologies. Six blogs report on web archiving only: Australia’s Web Archives ; Internet Archive Blogs ; Internet Memory Foundation Blogs ; Portugese Web Archive ; UK Web Archive Blog and WebArchiv (in Czech). …
Digitizing Video for Long-term Preservation: An RFP Guide and Template
Contents: I. Preface II. Request for Proposals (RFP) Guide and Template: 1. Introduction 2. Technical Requirements 3. Vendor Information 4. Schedule and Turnaround Time 5. Delivery of Completed Work 6. Failures 7. Special Instructions 8. Sub-Contracting 9. Insurance 10. Details of Proposal Deliverables Appendices: A. Sample Request for Proposal (RFP) B. Sample Metadata Schema C. Sample Transfer Notes D. A …