AV Insider is a quarterly magazine for the audiovisual digital preservation community. AV Insider issue 4 (December 2013) is themed “Film, Files, Formats, and the Future”. This issue covers technical guidelines and examples of good practice for film digitisation from both Memoriav (Switzerland) and the Institute for Sound and Vision (Netherlands). They have both looked at many options and have …
When the University of Illinois Library began the development of its digital preservation repository system, Medusa, the library found that there were many audiovisual resources that had yet to be cataloged, i.e. inaccessible to users. In order to make resources available to end-users and comply with Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model, the library developed an ingestion package that …
This paper presents a methodology for the preservation of audio documents, the operational protocol that acts as the methodology, and an original open source software system that supports and automatises several tasks along the process. The methodology is presented in the light of the ethical debate that has been challenging the international archival community for the last thirty years. The …
In the field of multimedia, very little attention is given to the activities involved in the preservation of audio documents. At the same time, more and more archives storing audio and video documents face the problem of obsolescing and degrading media, which could largely benefit from the instruments and the methodologies of research in multimedia. This paper presents the methodology …
Audiovisual collections can run the gamut of formats, from analog audio, film, and video to digital audio, film, video, and optical media. This five-part course examines the various formats and explores the major issues and challenges in preserving them. A team of national experts helps you to navigate the mind-boggling array of AV materials and provide practical advice on identifying, …
Presentation of the Music and Sound Archives Community of Practice by Daniel Teruggi at the Presto4U Workshop ‘Digital Audiovisual Preservation in Communities of Practice: Learn, Collaborate and Share’. Including current problems and issues with an analysis of weak and strong needs regarding preservation and access; how interaction and collaboration can develop innovative solutions. Recommended for everyone within the domain of …
