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Audiovisual Preservation for Culture, Heritage and Academic Collections

A One-Day course of what you need to know – and who! Final Programme and Presentations 10 November 2007, at King's College London, Centre for Computing in the Humanities.

Seventy percent of all audiovisual material is under immediate threat of deterioration, damage or obsolescence – and seventy percent of collection managers don’t know it. Surveys have found serious shortages of trained staff and equipment, and an even more serious shortage of concerted preservation actions. The immediate needs are: awareness – and help.

This one day course provided basic information on the problems of audiovisual material, what to do about them – and where to get help and more information. The day went very well. The programme is below, with links to the actual presentations (well, to the documents; next time I hope to record the audio).

Sponsored by:

• King’s Digital Consultancy Service, King’s College London: http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk
• British Universities Film and Video Council: http://www.bufvc.ac.uk
• Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe: http://www.tape-online.net
• Prestospace: http://www.prestospace.org

Click on PDF links to download presentations
Basics:

• Welcome and Introduction – Simon Tanner, KDCS simon.tanner@kcl.ac.uk :Tanner.PDF
• Basic Facts About Audiovisual Materials – Richard Wright, BBC richard.wright@bbc.co.uk :Wright1.PDF
• Lessons To Be Learnt From Major Film And Video Digitisation Projects – Murray Weston, BUFVC murray@bufvc.ac.uk
• Digital Audiovisual Preservation - Andrew Wilson, Arts and Humanities Data Service info@ahds.ac.uk. :Wilson.PDF

Case Studies 1 – JISC projects:

• NewsFilm Online – Tony Blake, Cambridge Imaging Tony@cmgroup.co.uk :Blake.PDF :Blake_Text.PDF
• British Library Archival Sound Recordings Service – Peter Findlay, British Library Peter.Findlay@bl.uk :Findlay.PDF

Case Studies 2:

• Managing Video Access And Preservation – Charles Fairall, British Film Institute Charles.Fairall@bfi.org.uk (PDF too large to include; please contact author)
• Preservation and Commercialisation – David Walsh, Imperial War Museum DWalsh@iwm.org.uk :Walsh.PDF
• Access & Stewardship in the Moving Image and Sound Collections in the Wellcome Library – Angela Saward, Wellcome Trust a.saward@wellcome.ac.uk

Advanced topics:

• Preservation Cost models – Matthew Addis, Southampton University (PrestoSpace) mja@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk :Addis.PDF
• Websites and Portals – Mike Stapleton, System Simulation Ltd (PrestoSpace) mike@ssl.co.uk (PDF too large to include; please contact author)
• Metadata – Ant Miller, BBC (PrestoSpace) ant.miller@bbc.co.uk :Miller.PDF
• Sources of Help: PrestoSpace, TAPE, KDCS, BUFVC, JISC, AHDS, EC – Richard Wright, BBC richard.wright@bbc.co.uk :Wright2.PDF