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.
Featured Discussion Topics
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.
Total Cost of Ownership
Andrea Kalas, SVP of Asset Management at Paramount Pictures, shares lessons she has learned implementing new archival preservation standards.
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 and warped “Clear Edge” 35mm magnetic film Chace Audio My first job after graduating from the UCLA Moving Image Archive Studies program was at Chace Audio, a world-renowned post-production house that serviced Hollywood studios and…