Conservation

Between 2005 and 2007, the Paradigm project of the Bodleian Library and John Rylands University Library explored the issues involved in the long-term preservation of born-digital private papers in the context of hybrid archives - those that are composed of traditional and born-digital formats. The project accessioned sample archives from contemporary UK politicians and used these to gain practical experience of combining archival and digital curation worflows, standards, tools and technologies. An Online Workbook was created during the project and a print edition has recently been produced.

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

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.

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.