Contents: Preface Summary of Findings Preserving Digital Periodicals E-Books and the Challenge of Preservation Archiving the World Wide Web Preservation of Digitally Recorded Sound Understanding the Preservation Challenge of Digital Television Digital Video Archives: Managing Through Metadata. Een verzameling achtergrondartikelen, bijeengebracht door de Library of Congress als input bij het bepalen van een nationale digitale behoudstrategie door verschillende stakeholders. Het …
Preservation 101- Preservation Basics for Paper and Media Collections
Preservation 101 is an online course that will help you learn about the basics of preservation in the context of small and moderately-sized library or archival collections. This course was produced as one component of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded to the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC). The grant supported training and resources for …
Risks Associated with the use of recordable CDs and DVDs
Contents: Introduction  Recordable CD and DVD as Target Storage Formats  Recording Reliable Data on a Recordable CD or DVD  Reproduction of Optical Disc Media (CD and DVD)  Digital Mass Storage System Principles  Optical Disc Standards and Manufacturers Specification  ISRC and ATIP Code Viewers  References. Dit document, Risks Associated with the use of recordable CDs and DVDs as reliable storage media …
What Archives Want: the Requirements for Digital Technology
Een kort en goed overzicht van de eisen die audiovisuele archieven moetenstellen aan de digitale opslag-industrie. De onderliggende gedachte is dat AV-archieven hun opslagfunctionaliteit kunnen uitbesteden onder bepaalde condities, te weten: garantie op duurzaamheid en courantheid (‘ persistence’ en ‘currency’ ) alsmede duidelijke informatie over de daaraan verbonden kosten. Goede introductie tot het onderwerp ‘digitaal contentmanagement’ voor niet-technici. Het stuk is geschreven om …
Measurement and Evaluation of Analog-to-Digital Converters Used in the LongTerm Preservation of Audio Recordings
The analog-to-digital (A/D) converter lies at the heart of the encoding side of a digital audio system, and is perhaps the most critical component in the entire signal chain. The A/D converter must discretely sample the analog signal, quantify the amplitude of the sample, and represent the measurement as a binary word. Whereas conversions made with the A/D converter’s counterpart—the …
A framework of guidance for building good digital collections
Overview of the main components of creating and managing digital collections. Provides a framework for identification, organisation and application of (existing) knowledge. The document is intended for two types of readers: cultural heritage organizations that start projects for the creation of digital collections and funding organisations wanting to support the development of sustainable digital archives. The principles for assessing …