Instructors: Howard Besser & Ann Harris
 
 

Assignments due before class:

• Read:
  • Visit the Video Format Identification Guide by Sarah Stauderman and Paul Messier
  • Look at Sarah Stauderman's Guide to Audio Formats 
    
  • Visit: http://www.paulmessier.com/VideoID/audio/
  • Packer, Randall and Ken Jordan (eds.) "Overture" in Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality (2001), p. xiii - xxxi.
  • Besser, Howard (1994). Fast Forward: The Future of Moving Image Collections , in Gary Handman (ed.), Video Collection Management and Development: A Multi-Type Library Perspective, Westport, CT: Greenwood, p. 411-426.
  • Roosa, Mark, "Videotape Analysis and Evaluation" and Adelstein, Peter, "Videotape Storage" in Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video (1998), p.5-17. On reserve in Bobst Library.
• Further Readings
  • American Library Association. "Audio Preservation: A Selected Annotated Bibliography and Brief Summary of Current Practices"   (7 March 2003)
  • National Institute of Standards & Technology and Care and Council on Library and Information Resources. Handling Guide for the Preservation of CDs and DVDs, NIST Special Publication 500-252, May 2003
  • Canter, Marc "The New Workstation: CD ROM Authoring Systems" in Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality (2001), p. 179-188.
  
  
  

Agenda

• Discussion of FIAT meeting
• Exercise in identification of Video, Audio, and New Media
  
• Who makes/has made new media? What artifacts exist as a result of the production? What gets saved and is lost?
• Knowing more about film/video/sound/new media artifacts, what does that tell you about risks to the materials? What about their needs for description and care?
• New Media

Agenda items delayed from week two

• Introduction to moving image artifacts: film, tape, discs and other materials.
• Further review of readings, discussion questions, and discussion of visit to MMI  (15 min)
• Structure of Film and a brief History of Film Formats (45 min)


• Review:
• Guide to Identifying Color Movie Flim Stocks by Paul Ivester.
• Chronology of MP Films, Eastman Kodak.
• More than one hundred years of Film Sizes by Michael Rogge, 1996.
• The Ultimate Table of Formats-- Aspect Ratios by Mark Baldock.

• How Video Works, Structure of Video, History and Identification of Video Formats (45 min)
• excerpts from Playback: Preserving Analog Video, Bay Area Video Coalition, 2003.
• Fact Sheet 3: A Very Brief History of Videotape, Videotape Preservation Fact Sheets, AMIA, 2003
• Fact Sheet 7: Reformatting for Preservation: Understanding tape formats and other conversion issues, Videotape Preservation Fact Sheets, AMIA, 2003
• Inside a Video Playback Deck


• Introduction to New Media & Installation Works (60 min)
• Multi-channel
• Multimedia works
• Groups
• Rhizome 
  
• Eyebeam 
  
• Examples
• US Dept of Art & Technology (website, installation)
• Electronic Cafe International 
  
• Digital encoding-bits & bytes
  
• File encoding formats and compression -- VCD, DVD, Quicktime, Realmedia; MPEG
  
• Physical storage -- DVD,
  
• DVD Basics, Optical Disc Systems, Sept/Oct 2002
• DVD FAQ, DVD Demystified
• DVD Primer and overview
  
• DVD Dual Layer diagram
  
• DVD regional coding
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• Web-based delivery
• stream vs. download
• CBS News, Sept 17, 2004
  
• Democracy Now! 
  
• video for ongoing internal use
• web delivery to end-users (download, streaming)

• Introduction to Risk Assessment for Film/Video/New Media (30 min)
• Fact Sheet 9: Tape Inspection, Videotape Preservation Fact Sheets, AMIA, 2003
• Assessing a Collection for Preservation in Looking Back/Looking Forward: A Symposium on Electronic Media Preservation, Video History Project, 2002

• Current Events  (20 min)

• AMIA and SCMS discussions on Huricane Katrina aftermath, beginning Sept 8, 2005
  

• Challenged by Creationists, Museums Strike Back, NY Times, Sept 20, 2005
• New Orleans Museum, Under Lock and Guard, NY Times, Sept 19, 2005
• For Hollywood Writers, a Whiff of Unclaimed Foreign Gold, NY Times, Sept 19, 2005
• Crave privacy? New tech knocks out digital cameras, CNET News, ZDNet News, Sept 19, 2005
  
• Ring Tones, Cameras, Now This: Sex Is Latest Cellphone Feature, NY Times, Sept 17, 2005
• Controller Steals Show at Game Fair, NY Times, Sept 17, 2005
• Just What the Professor Ordered, Ian Ayres, NY Times, Sept 16, 2005
  
• Use of news footage--Advertisement, "Silence", Senate Hearing on Chief Justice Nominee, IndependentCourt.org, Sept 15, 2005

• Assignment for next week
• Come prepared with questions for panel on conservation issues, next Tuesday at 6:00pm
• Be ready to explain how far you've gotten on your Case-Study projects