D7.1.5 Audiovisual Digital Preservation Status Report 3

Contents: Scope Executive summary 1. A summary of PrestoPRIME public activity in 2011 2. PrestoPRIME technology 3. PrestoCentre Developments in 2011 4. Technology – Brief Encounters 5. UK, European and International Developments 6. Preservation of Signals 7. Glossary 8. References This status report is the seventh in a series of annual reviews of audiovisual preservation in Europe produced by the …

D5.2.2. First Prototype of Open PrestoPRIME Reference Implementation

Contents: Executive Summary Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Technologies 3. P4 Implementation 4. P4 Core Components 5. P4 Web Server 6. P4 User Interface 7. External Tools 8. Installation Guide 9. Software Documentation 10. Software License 11. Demonstration of Prototype 12. Future Work 13. Conclusions 14. Glossary References A. Data Model Namespaces B. SIP examples C. DIP example D. …

Archipelproject: Introduction (Preserving our History in a Sustainable Digital Way series)

Archipel is a project based on the finding that a sustainable digital archive infrastructure is needed in Flanders in order to ensure a structural approach to the problem of digital archiving. The  project is also based on the fact that there is an important role for players from the world of arts, cultural and scientific heritage and education in the …

Toward the New Enlightenment – Film, Sound and the Promise of New Technology

This is the presentation given by Peter Kaufman (Intelligent Television) as the Opening Keynote of Screening the Future 2011. Over the past decade, television and film archivists, working with government funds, philanthropic support,and private partners, have been adding moving images and recorded sound to the searchable corpus of human knowledge online. That corpus now embraces billions of words, images, moving …

Digitisation’s Last Hurdle, or a Bridge Too Far?

Film archives around the world have developed expertise in preserving film: many plan for their collections to last for 400 years, stored in carefully-controlled conditions. The old problems of inflammable nitrate film, of shrinking and decomposing acetate film, of fading colour dyes, are all understood and controlled. But how will we screen these prints in the future? And when will …

Tutorial: Introduction to Preservation

  Audiovisual preservation is best described as the totality of the steps necessary to ensure the permanent accessibility – forever – of an audiovisual document with the maximum integrity (CCAAA definition). To ensure permanent accessibility, maintenance is necessary. The reason for using the word maintenance is rhetorical: to promote the idea that preservation activity must be performed, funded, and included …