This free webinar presents an overview of the key challenges and processes involved in digitisation and digital preservation through a real world case study from the BBC Broadcast Archive.
The BBC has been copying from old videotape formats to new ones for over 20 years, but for most of that time they copied from analogue videotape to digital videotape. For the last six years they have been making files FROM digital videotape. What’s the difference?
Richard Wright (PrestoCentre) will give a brief overview of digital preservation, covering three stages:
- Digitising analogue formats
- Making files from digital physical formats
- Preservation actions on files
Tom Heritage (BBC R&D) will describe the actual work over the last six years at the BBC, dealing with two digital formats: Panasonic D3, and Sony DigiBeta. He will cover how they ‘capture the bits’, problems and solutions, and how they hold and preserve the results.
Learning Objectives
- Have a basic knowledge of digitisation and digital preservation challenges
- Have an understanding of the issues around digitising analogue and digital formats
- Learn about the importance of preservation actions
- Hear about the digitisation experiences, problems and solutions at the BBC Archive dealing with specific digital formats
Target Audience
- Digitisation and preservation managers of analogue and digital video
- Preservation archivists
- Commercial Providers
Presenter: Richard Wright, PrestoCentre Foundation
Richard Wright is an acoustics, speech and signal processing engineer specialising in audio and video (digital audio since 1967; digital video since 1976). Between 1994 and 2012 he has worked for the BBC on archive preservation, digitisation and access. He was responsible for all the BBC Archive IT systems operation and development during 1994-2000, and was part of the team that got funding to launch a 10-year, £50 million digitisation project running from 2000-2009 (and now continuing at that funding level indefinitely). Since 2000 he has been coordinating European-level projects in audiovisual preservation and access technology, with the BBC working in partnership with all the major European broadcast archives.
Presenter: Tom Heritage
Tom is based in the BBC’s Research and Development department in London focussing on technology & systems for the digital preservation of media content. Working closely with the BBC Archive, recent projects have involved the preservation of content held on videotape, tackling the challenges of ingesting to files and then quality checking, preserving, and providing access to this content in the file-based world. Tom has also been involved in the PrestoPRIME, and now Presto4U EU collaborative projects and joined the FIAT / IFTA Preservation & Migration Commission in 2012.
What are PrestoCentre Webinars?
PrestoCentre webinars are online seminars on audiovisual digitisation and digital preservation topics. They provide PrestoCentre members with an excellent opportunity to learn from experts in the field, while interacting with their peers.