The main focus is the intellectual nature of curatorship and its principal manifestations in the audiovisual world. Among the reference points for the views outlined below are: the FIAF Code of Ethics, the UNESCO Recommendation on the preservation of moving images (1985), the General Guidelines of UNESCO’s ‘Memory of the World’ project, the codes of ethics and definitions of organisations such as FIAF, IFLA, ICA, ICOM, the Code of Ethics of the …
Chasing Technology The Challenge of Preserving Audiovisual Records
Archivists who work with audiovisual records often find themselves confronting a challenge their counterparts who deal with traditional paper records do not have. They must often act as “bucket brigades”—chasing one “fire” after another as rapidly changing technology threatens to render the media formats storing audiovisual records obsolete and inaccessible. What these archivists face is the daunting task of preserving—and …
EAI Online Resource Guide for Exhibiting, Collecting & Preserving Media Art
EAI’s Online Resource Guide for Exhibiting, Collecting & Preserving Media Art addresses key issues and brings together information on current practices and critical dialogue relating to single-channel video, computer-based art and media installation. The Preservation section was created by IMAP (Independent Media Arts Preservation), a nonprofit resource for preserving electronic media. The Guide features a range of essential information: Best …
Measurement and Evaluation of Analog-to-Digital Converters Used in the LongTerm Preservation of Audio Recordings
The analog-to-digital (A/D) converter lies at the heart of the encoding side of a digital audio system, and is perhaps the most critical component in the entire signal chain. The A/D converter must discretely sample the analog signal, quantify the amplitude of the sample, and represent the measurement as a binary word. Whereas conversions made with the A/D converter’s counterpart—the …
TRAC: Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and checklist
This document contains the current best practice on the organisational and technical infrastructure for reliable storage of digital collections, or trusted repositories. The document discusses the criteria trusted repositories should comply with, giving examples. The checklist – that begins with self assessment – can be used to get a picture of an orgaznisation’s own skill and the threats and risks …
Metadata guidelines for describing born digital programs
This report, prepared under the Preserving Digital Public Television (PDPTV) project, provides an overview of descriptive and preservation metadata standards that are considered appropriate for long-term accessibility of digital television programs. Context and metadata types are briefly outlined. The recommendation from the NDIIPP project to work with a combination of PBCore, METS and PREMIS within the OAIS model is taken …