AV Insider 4: Film, Files, Formats, and the Future

AV Insider is a quarterly magazine for the audiovisual digital preservation community. AV Insider issue 4 (December 2013) is themed “Film, Files, Formats, and the Future”. This issue covers technical guidelines and examples of good practice for film digitisation from both Memoriav (Switzerland) and the Institute for Sound and Vision (Netherlands). They have both looked at many options and have …

Music and Sound Archives Community of Practice

Presentation of the Music and Sound Archives Community of Practice by Daniel Teruggi at the Presto4U Workshop ‘Digital Audiovisual Preservation in Communities of Practice: Learn, Collaborate and Share’. Including current problems and issues with an analysis of weak and strong needs regarding preservation and access; how interaction and collaboration can develop innovative solutions. Recommended for everyone within the domain of …

Webinar: Essence quality control for AV archive digitisation, migration and exploitation

This recorded webinar is an introduction to essence (baseband) quality control (QC) in the context of audiovisual preservation. It will start with the role of essence QC in the use cases video archive digitisation, digital migration, content selection and use. Currently available and emerging functionalities will be presented. Strategies for cost-efficient implementation of essence QC will be introduced, and showing …