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Digital Preservation Timeline

The Digital Preservation Timeline (DPT) presented here provides a timeline-oriented bibliography of significant contributions in digital preservation history with a focus on technologies, restoration projects, software tools, companies and individuals. The objective was to collect information on technological history, along with evolving opinions and theories related to digital preservation documenting the advancement of digital preservation…

File Systems and the Cloud for Digital Archival of Motion Picture Assets

1. Introduction Motion picture productions generate vast amounts of digital data. To provide a sense of scale, imagine a motion…

Digital Storage Considerations and Devices for Archiving Motion Picture Assets

1. Introduction Motion picture productions generate vast amounts of digital data. This data can be in the form of text,…

Understanding the forgotten world of analog film sound workflow to improve sound preservation and restoration

It will be hard to forget how analog film sound technologies and techniques influenced our modern sound postproduction workflow after…

The Legacy of Chace Audio: An Archivist’s Perspective

By Alejandra Espasande Bouza Dedicated to the unsung heroes of audio preservation and restoration Film preparation work bench with brittle…

Our Preservation Pillars

Our mission is to be a forum for exchanging information, exploring innovative ideas, and developing best practices and tools. We see these as largely falling within three underlying areas of importance, which we refer to as our preservation pillars.

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Data Storage Media and Digital Preservation: Today and The Future

Andrea Kalas sits down with Digital Bedrock CEO Linda Tadic to discuss potential solutions to a looming digital preservation calamity.

Digital Preservation Timeline

The Digital Preservation Timeline (DPT) presented here provides a timeline-oriented bibliography of significant contributions in digital preservation history with a focus on technologies, restoration projects, software tools, companies and individuals. The objective was to collect information on technological history, along with evolving opinions and theories related to digital preservation documenting the advancement of digital preservation…

Introduction to the Genetic Archive

This essay presents a proposal for a new approach to motion picture archiving, saving only the minimal original elements and recipes for their reconstruction.

Archivists Talk: How to Select Digital Assets for Preservation

In reviewing the Digital Dilemma, Steve Anastasi and Schawn Belston analyze the definition of digital preservation of motion pictures, then discuss the factors that impact what may or not be selected for preservation.

Interoperable Master Format (IMF)

IMF is a standardized structure and file format for the interchange, storage, and delivery of audiovisual masters.

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