Meeting the Problem of Media Preservation: Strategies and Solutions

Contents: Executive Summary – 1. Prologue 2. Media Preservation Initiative Task Force Recommendations 3. Background 4. Preservation Planning 5. Strategies for Film 6. Facility Planning 7. Access 8. Technology Infrastructure and Needs 9. Campus Engagement 10. Next Steps Appendix 1: Project Structure and Personnel This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Indiana University (IU) Bloomington Media Preservation Task …

QC — and long-term archiving experience

During the digitisation of legacy archive material at ORF, the Austrian public-service broadcaster, hundreds of thousands of video cassettes will need to be converted to digital file formats over the next decade. To guarantee the sustainable usability of this file-based material, thoroughly-planned guidelines for Quality Control (QC) have to be worked out. Although some QC tools already exist, their detailed …

Analysis of Archive Film Material

A report on a study by the Technical University of Vienna and the Austrian Film Museum of content analysis (automatic indexing supporting search and retrieval) of archive film. The approach is not ground-breaking when applied to video content, but in this study they were specifically concerned with archived film. Therefore there were the additional problems of digitisation of archived film, plus …

Digitization for Film Archives — Assorted Complications

This brief publication (4 pages) mentions a variety of issues that may arise during film digitization projects. Topics include Scanning (tests, capture, expertise, metadata); Post-Scanning (playback issues, grading, qc); DPX files (header and channel issues, storage and size); Audio (workflow issues); and Output (access requirements). This summary guideline is actually a sort of ‘alert’ list, alerting film archivists to potential …