Some Considerations when Setting up a Digitization Workflow

This brief publication (4 pages) by two staff members from the EYE Film Institute Netherlands presents what film archives need to consider before undertaking large film digitization projects. It touches upon a variety of issues including planning, choices based on expected usage, tracking workflow, quality control and backup policy. Clearly not written to provide exhaustive digitization workflow guidance, it does …

Preserving Moving Pictures and Sound

This report is for anyone with responsibility for collections of sound or moving image content and an interest in preservation of that content. New content is born digital, analogue audio and video need digitisation to survive and film requires digitisation for access. Consequently, digital preservation will be relevant over time to all these areas. The report concentrates on digitisation, encoding, file formats and …

AV Insider 2: Preservation in Times of Precarity

AV Insider is a quarterly magazine for the audiovisual digital preservation community. AV Insider issue 2 (September 2012) is themed “Preservation in Times of Precarity”. The issue addresses the various challenges of AV organisations in the context of the current global financial crisis. How do we continue the significant preservation work when our budgets become tighter and tighter? What ways …

Survey Report on Digitisation in European Cultural Heritage Institutions

The ENUMERATE Survey Report on Digitisation in Cultural Heritage Institutions 2012 represents the first major study into the current state of digitisation in Europe. It is the result of a survey carried out by the ENUMERATE Thematic Network, with the help of national coordinators, in 29 European countries. About 2000 institutions answered the open call to participate between January and March 2012. The survey asked …

I want to preserve audiovisual content. How do I get started?

The basic steps for planning, funding, and carrying out a preservation project  are: make a map of the collection, and sort contents into groups according to type and condition; arrange the groups in priority order according to the urgency of their preservation needsd (triage); work out what needs to be done for each group: a preservation strategy; and state exactly how the work will be …