Conservation

Preservation Guide (for Audiovisual Media)

If you have audiovisual media, it needs maintenance - or you will lose it. This guide shows how to:conserve old formatsdigitise for transfer to new formatscreate digital file formatsuse digital restorationuse mass storageprovide electronic and web access Functionality: Wiki Level of Expertise: Introductory, but also has information of use to experienced professionals

http://www.bbcarchive.org.uk

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RODA (Repositório de Objectos Digitais Autênticos)

The National Archive Institute of Portugal (IAN/TT) doesn't currently have the needed infrastructures to support the processes of ingestion and management of digital objects produced by the public administration (PA). The initiatives of the eGovernment establish the need to support its activity in information and communication technologies to improve the efficiency, productivity and quality of their public services. In this scenario it is clear that the number of digital objects produced by these institutions will grow, and that their legal value and authenticity should be assured.

http://portal.roda.dgarq.gov.pt/

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PHOTHEREL (PHOTographic HERitage ELearning)

PHOTHEREL was a Socrates (Minerva) project, financed by the European Commission, through which four partners combined their experience: The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), the FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen (Belgium), the Service de la Formation Continue of the Universite Toulouse2-Le Mirail (France) and the Centre of Excellence for the Study of the Image (CESI) of the University of Bucharest (Romania). The project mainly aimed at developing a methodology for a "justified" digitization of photographic heritage.

http://www.photherel.net

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Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access (SEPIA)

In 1999 the European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) initiated a project aimed at the long-term preservation of all kind of photographic materials and defining the role of new technology in collection management. This resulted in Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access (SEPIA). The project was set up explicitly to bring together representatives from different types of institutions that hold photographs: libraries, archives and museums, as well as from research institutes.

http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/sepia/