This PrestoCentre digest summarises the considerations and decisions made in the context of a large-scale film scanning operation by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Sound and Vision guarantees the sustain- able preservation of the Dutch national audio-visual heritage and makes it accessible to professionals, educational institutes and the general public. The considerations presented by the authors (Tom de …
White Paper: Film scanning considerations
Sound and Vision is one of the six original partners of the programme ‘Images for the Future’ which started in 2007 and finishes in 2014. The main goal of the programme is safeguarding Dutch audiovisual material by realizing maximum accessibility to the material for the targeted user groups. Within the scope of the programme archive material is conserved, digitised and …
Frequently Asked Questions (about audiovisual preservation)
These FAQ questions about audiovisual preservation were written by Richard Wright for PrestoCentre in 2013 and updated in 2019. They provide an introduction to the wealth of information from the Presto Projects and PrestoCentre, now part of the AVA_Net Library. They are meant to give brief answers to the basic questions.
DPN Digital Preservation Curriculum
DPN engaged AVPreserve to develop a digital preservation workflow curriculum to share with DPN members and others in the digital preservation community. This workshop curriculum will equip participants with a set of skills and knowledge that will enable them to enact programmatic digital preservation within their organization and is focused on equipping organizations with the capability to implement and manage a …
