AV Insider is a quarterly magazine for the audiovisual digital preservation community. AV Insider Issue 5 (July 2014) is a special 44 pages summer edition about the new challenges for the audiovisual archivist: New support roles for the AV community Where can you find old manuals? How do you increase your digital maturity level? What we can learn from other practitioner communities …
2014 Report on Digitisation, Online Accessibility and Digital Preservation of Cultural Material
The European Commission monitors progress in the area of Digitisation, Online Accessibility and Digital Preservation of Cultural Material. This 2014 Status Report shows that there has been an increase of digitisation plans and overviews of digitised material, more cross-border collaboration and public-private partnerships as well as pooling of digitisation efforts through competence centres or specific aggregators. Web visibility of cultural …
A short guide to choosing a digital format for video archiving masters
Hundred of thousands of hours of audiovisual material are still being held by Flemish cultural heritage institutions and broadcast archives on already – or soon to become – obsolete carriers. From the end of 2013 the Flemish Institute for Archiving (VIAA) will operate as a service provider who will organise the digitisation and storage of audiovisual contents for owners and …
Jisc Digital Media Infokit
This Jisc Digital Media Infokit provides a simple outline of what needs to be taken into account when undertaking more complex digitisation, offering technical advice relating to the digitisation and care of specific media formats; and advice on equipment. It is aimed at all levels of staff involved in high-level digitisation (HLD) with sections dedicated to addressing managerial and project …
AV Insider 6: TDR, Digital Preservation and the Soft Side of Technology
AV Insider is a quarterly magazine for the audiovisual digital preservation community. AV Insider Issue 6 (July 2015) is a special 31 pages edition about Trusted Digital Repositories, digital preservation and the soft side of technology: The challenges of becoming a Trusted Digital Repository Multimedia Preservation Application Format as metadata container Welcome to the jungle of preservation standards Automated metadata extraction and …
Digital Preservation: Online Resources
If you are new to the world of digital preservation, you may be feeling overwhelmed by the multitude of technical terms and professional practices to contend with, and the fact that standards never seem to stay in place for very long. Fortunately, there are many resources related to digital preservation available on the internet. Unfortunately, the large amount of websites, …