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 …
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 …
Webinar: Choosing your file format
This webinar was organised in celebration of World Audiovisual Heritage Day 2014. The recording focuses on standardisation efforts for broadcast file preservation formats and offers a real-life example of an audiovisual archive selecting its preservation format. In it, broadcast archive specialists lead you into the topic of file selection. For many archives in the digital domain a recurring question is …
To standardise or not: is normalisation of video a thing of the past?
This recorded webinar will examine the question of whether it makes sense to produce a standardised copy of a digital video file for preservation within the context of collections of video artworks. In the world of digital video tape, this was done to provide a safety copy, often to provide a more robust uncompressed version and also to streamline future …
Exchange of Video Assets – Best Practices and Standards in Different Organisations
This recorded webinar poses several questions and answers on the importance of best practices and standards in the exchange of video assets across a diverse range of organisations within the media industry. How are assets and media files exposed, exchanged, compressed, adopted? How is metadata used in order to ensure information flow and reuse of data? How are media files …
Digital Preservation: Online Resources
If you are new to the world of digital preservation, you may be feeling overwhelmed by the multitude of technical terms and professional practices to contend with, and the fact that standards never seem to stay in place for very long. Fortunately, there are many resources related to digital preservation available on the internet. Unfortunately, the large amount of websites, …