Accessing and managing file-based born digital video

This presentation given at the 2009 AMIA conference, offers a strategy and workflow for accessioning and managing file-based digital video (video that is recorded digitally at its point of creation, not Digital Betacam tapes or files that have been digitized from analog media such as U‐matic or Betacam SP). It describes how to take advantage of existing embedded technical and …

Lossless Video Codecs Comparison

The MSU Lossless Video Codec is a video codec developed by the Graphics & Media Lab Video Group of Moscow State University. The aim of development was producing lossless video at very high rate of compression. MSU currently has the second best compression ratio (behind YULS) when compared to many other lossless video codecs. The latest version, 1.2, was released …

ALCTS Preservation Webinar Registrations

Free webinars from the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). Webinar recordings are available at no cost 6 months after the original presentation You can find recordings of past Preservation Week webinars on YouTube. Libraries are encouraged to use any of these free recordings as part of their programming. More relevant videos can be found under the Playlist …

Archipelproject: Legal research (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 …

I want to preserve audiovisual content. How do I get started?

The basic steps for planning, funding, and carrying out a preservation project  are: make a map of the collection, and sort contents into groups according to type and condition; arrange the groups in priority order according to the urgency of their preservation needsd (triage); work out what needs to be done for each group: a preservation strategy; and state exactly how the work will be …