Excellence in Digital Preservation
This website contains white papers, webinar presentations and other material with a particular focus on the preservation of data: the results of research. The information on storage, risks, trust and repositories has direct relevance to audiovisual files and their preservation. From the website: “Digital encoding dominantes how information is created, shaped and exchanged. This dependence carries many risks. …
AMIA Supplier Directory: A Global Directory of Services and Suppliers of Audiovisual Media
The AMIA Supplier Directory is an online publication, made available on the AMIA website as a free download to anyone in the field. The Kind of Organisations in the Directory Appraisers Associations and Organizations Copyright/Rights Clearance Consulting Digital Archival Storage and Management Services Educational Programs Hardware Sales and Services Media Asset Management Sales and Services Physical Archival Storage and Management Services …
Matters in Media Art: Collaborating towards the care of time-based media
Contents: About Matters in Media Art Acquisitions Loans Credits How to use this site. A website developed by the Matters in Media Art Project, a collaborative project started in 2003 by a consortium of curators, conservators, registrars and media technical managers from the New Art Trust, MoMA, SFMOMA and Tate. Its goal is to provide guidelines for care of time-based …
Disaster Recovery For Films in Flooded Areas
This four page document written by a specialist at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia lists the concrete steps to take for flood-damaged films. Also available by the same author is an FAQ on film water damage. It’s a practical, hands-on, step for step instruction document, originally written after the damage incurred during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans …