D7.1.3 Audiovisual Digital Preservation Status Report

Contents: Scope Executive Summary 1. A very brief introduction to PrestoPRIME 2. Digitisation 3. Digital Management and Preservation 4. Access Conclusions Glossary Annex I – DPE briefing paper. This report presents an overview of the problems, the technology and the projects currently underway in the audiovisual preservation domain as of January 2010. Beginning with a look at digitisation and its …

Politiek Archief Beta

Politiek Archief is een onafhankelijke stichting die als doel heeft de verhouding tussen politiek en burger transparanter te maken. Daartoe heeft zij in 2010 deze webportal opgericht, die lokale politieke informatie voor iedereen toegankelijk en inzichtelijk maakt. De site verzamelt alle politieke informatie die op het net staat.Inmiddels zijn ruim 50.000 uren video opnames van (raads)vergaderingen beschikbaar. De AV-content is …

Folkstreams Guide to Best Practices in Film Digitization

Contents: 1.0 Background 2.0 Discovering and acquiring films 3.0 Film and video digitization 4.0 Website Infrastructure 5.0 Metadata 6.0 Preservation 7.0 Advertising and Outreach 8.0 Evaluation 9.0 Appendices and links 10. Works cited and bibliography This guide describes how the Folkstreams project selects, acquires, digitizes and provides access to documentary films about American folk or roots cultures. It addresses selection …

Archipelproject: Social Impact & Examples (Preserving our History in a Sustainable Digital Way series)

Video is titled “Teaser” on YouTube Archipel is a project based on the finding that a sustainable digital archive infrastructure is needed in Flanders in order to ensure a structural approach to the problem of digital archiving. The  project is also based on the fact that there is an important role for players from the world of arts, cultural and …

Tutorial: Introduction to Preservation

  Audiovisual preservation is best described as the totality of the steps necessary to ensure the permanent accessibility – forever – of an audiovisual document with the maximum integrity (CCAAA definition). To ensure permanent accessibility, maintenance is necessary. The reason for using the word maintenance is rhetorical: to promote the idea that preservation activity must be performed, funded, and included …

Tutorial: Conservation of analogue AV content

Conservation is a vital part of all preservation strategies. Even if the next step in a preservation plan is a transfer to new media, there has to be something – ideally in pristine condition – to be transferred. Digitisation and transfer processes actually occupy a tiny proportion of the lifetime of an object. For the majority of the time, the …