Contents: Introduction: Authentication of the Digital Replica from Media-Based Origins Digital on Paper: The UPC Barcode, Parity Data, and Verified Scanning DV as Tape-Based Digital Video Next Steps: The Testing Phase DV Ingest Software Tests DV Ingest Hardware Tests Conclusion This report examines the evaluation of accurate replication of data during digital tape to digital file migration, essential to ensuring …
Format Considerations in Audio-Visual Preservation Reformatting
This article’s subtitle is ‘Snapshots from the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI)’. The author presents an overview of decisions the initiative’s Audio-Visual Working Group has made concerning format choices and the handling of embedded metadata for audio and moving image files. It describes its choice of WAVE/BWF formats for audio and its approach to embedding metadata in these formats. …
MXF – a progress report
This ‘progress’ report on MXF describes its origins, provides a brief technical overview of how it works and covers its adoption and application to date. In addition, it addresses some interoperability issues it has, describes how metadata is handled and concludes with a look to its future as a wrapper. This brief report (11 pages) presents a good overview of …
A Primer on Codecs for Moving Image and Sound Archives
Contents: Introduction Compression as an Informed Decision How Encoding Works Exchanging Encoded Information What Does This Matter for Moving Image and Sound Archivists? What Does This All Mean for Moving Image and Sound Archivists? Ten Recommendations for Codec Selection and Management. This short ‘primer’ provides an explanation of what codecs are, how they are used, and what their selection and …
British Library – Digital Preservation
This website contains a collection of information on digital preservation, in the British Library itself as well as in general. The British Library is collecting and creating an increasing amount of material in various digital formats. This material must be preserved for future use. The diversity of digital material and frequent changes in computer technology present challenges for long-term preservation …
Archipel D4.7 Workflows and Transcoding
Contents: 1 Introduction 2 Architecture 3 Integration Server 4 Harvest Services 5 Preservation Services 6 Dissemination Services 7 Conclusion Deze deliverable (Let op: Sign in alvorens de pdf te kunnen downloaden) beschrijft de workflow en de transcodeer service die zijn ontwikkeld voor het Archipel demonstratieplatform. Eerst wordt in het kort de architectuur voor dit OAIS-compliant digitaal archief toegelicht. De taken …