Contents:
- Home
- Migration Digital
- Migration Traditional
- Video ID
- Equipment Museum
- Library
- About.
A website focussed on videotape. The section ‘Migration digital’ includes a description of the digital capture process using video capture cards for the acquisition of files which are output as self-contained individual video files; ‘Migration traditional’ contains information that will help users follow the traditional pathways to video preservation: (a) select a service bureau that can do the work; (b) find equipment and methods for the in-house migration of analog videotape to new videotape, analog or digital, as a time-based feed of the video signal as the tape is read; ‘Video ID’ is a video identification tool; ‘Museum’ has links to video equipment image repositories and ‘Library contains information on the science, history and technology of video capture and preservation.
An extensive website with lots of good information as well as links to other well known resources on videotape (for example from the AMIA site). Lots of photos throughout make the information even more accessible. Although authors state that the purpose is ‘to encourage the preservation of historic video using the mature technology of digital capture to create individual video files, which would be stored on mass storage media such as hard drives (HDD) or data tape (DT)”, the site offers more than guidance on that subject alone.