The Digital Dilemma: Strategic Issues in Archiving and Access Digital Motion Picture Materials

Contents: Executive Summary    Archiving    The Transition to Digital    Current Practice, Other Industries    Archiving in the Changing Environment    Digital Motion Picture Archiving Economics    Industry Needs and Opportunities    Consensus    Appendix, Case Study Data    References. Dit rapport behandelt het maken en bewaren van speelfilms in de context van de toegenomen digitale productie, distributie en …

Sustainability of Digital Formats. Planning for Library of Congress Collections. Format Descriptions

Contents: Still image Sound Moving Image Textual Web archive Datasets Geospatial Generic The digital content format descriptions provide specific information about individual formats and their characteristics. Each description provides moderately detailed information and citations. Planned for inclusion are a wide variety of formats: file formats, file-format classes, bitstream structures and encodings, and the mechanisms used to compress files or bitstreams. …

D13.4 Digital Repositories Explained

Contents: 1. Document Scope and Summary 2. Definition of Digital Repository &nbsp 3. Electronic Access 4. Why Digital Repositories Matter &nbsp 5. Requirements for an Audiovisual Digital Repository 6. Repository Standards 7. Repository Technology 8. Services, Costs and Conclusions 9. References. Dit document benoemt de vereisten voor veilige, duurzame digitale opslag met bijzondere aandacht voor het digitaliseren van audiovisuele materialen. …

Sustainability of Digital Formats. Planning for Library of Congress Collections

Contents: Introduction Sustainability Factors Content Categories Format Descriptions. De Digital Formats Web website is gewijd aan de analyse van de technische aspecten van de digitale content. Ze geeft vooral informatie over digitale formats. De beschrijvingen dienen niet alleen als hulpmiddel bij formatkeuze, maar ondersteunen ook conserveringsprocessen. De website richt zich op de formaten die geassocieerd worden met media-onafhankelijke digitale content. …

Digital Preservation Policies Study. Part 1. Final Report October 2008

Contents: 1. Acknowledgements 2. Executive Summary 3. Introduction 4. Methodology 5. What is Digital Preservation? 6. Applying and Tailoring This Study to Your Institution 7. A Model for Institutional Digital Preservation Policies 8. Mapping to Key Institutional Strategies. Dit rapport geeft weer wat digitaal conserveringsbeleid inhoudt. Het introduceert daarbij een model dat instituten kan helpen bij het ontwikkelen en implementeren van zo’n …

Accessing and managing file-based born digital video

This presentation given at the 2009 AMIA conference, offers a strategy and workflow for accessioning and managing file-based digital video (video that is recorded digitally at its point of creation, not Digital Betacam tapes or files that have been digitized from analog media such as U‐matic or Betacam SP). It describes how to take advantage of existing embedded technical and …