Instructors: Howard Besser & Mona Jimenez
 
 

Introduction to Moving Image Archiving & Preservation H72.1800

Nov 4  Video & Audio Preservation Issues

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Assignments due before class :

• Orphans Assignment due
• Take tour of VidiPax either W Oct 29 or Th Oct 30 at 2:30 (450 West 31st St. btwn 9th & 10th Av, 4th flr)
• Read:
• Bachman, Rebecca, "Video Preservation: Glossary of Terms", in Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video (1998), p.72 ó 76. On reserve in Bobst Library.
• Van Bogart, Dr. John W.C., Magnetic Tape Storage and Handling: A Guide for Libraries and Archives , Washington, D.C.: The Commission on Preservation and Access and St. Paul, MN: National Media Laboratory (1995).
• Norris, Debbie Hess, "Videotape Collections: Establishing Priorities for Preservation" in Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video San Francisco: Bay Area Video Coalition (1998), p.60 - 69. On reserve in Bobst Library.
• American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works (AIC) " Caring for your Videotape "

Planned Topics to cover:

• What are some of the major issues with video and sound preservation?
• What are typical approaches to caring for and preserving video and sound?
• What is the effect of digital formats and digitization on media preservation?
• Knowing more about video/sound artifacts, what does that tell you about risks to the material? What about its needs for description and care?

Agenda

• xxxxx
• Current Events
• Copyright
• File Sharing Pits Copyright Against Free Speech, NY Times, Nov 3, 2003
• Music-Sharing Service at M.I.T. Is Shut Down, NY Times, Nov 3, 2003
• Web Group Backs Microsoft in Patent Suit, NY Times, NY Times, Oct 29, 2003
• A Film Dispute Becomes Melodrama, NY Times, Nov 3, 2003
• Saving Seeds Subjects Farmers to Suits Over Patent, NY Times, Nov 2, 2003
• In the News:
• Criticism Meets New Exhibit of Plane That Carried A-Bomb, NY Times, Nov 2, 2003
• That's Not All, Folks!, NY Times, Nov 2, 2003
• The Long Last Gasp of Tube-Based TV, NY Times, Oct 29, 2003
• Upcoming events
• Tues Nov 11, Craig Baldwin at the Robert Beck
• Sunday November 9, 1 PM, Wakamba screening (Robert's work), Margaret Mead Film Festival, American Museum of Natural History

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• Review of previous readings (if time)
• Assignments for next week