Building a National Strategy for Digital Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving

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&nbsp Recordable CD and DVD as Target Storage Formats&nbsp Recording Reliable Data on a Recordable CD or DVD&nbsp Reproduction of Optical Disc Media (CD and DVD)&nbsp Digital Mass Storage System Principles&nbsp Optical Disc Standards and Manufacturers Specification&nbsp ISRC and ATIP Code Viewers&nbsp 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 …