Tag: preservation
Case Study: Is Perfect the Enemy of Good Enough? Digital Video Preservation in the Age of Declining Budgets by Doug Boyd Digital video is a very large, complex and expensive format to curate on a large scale with no codified professional standards for preservation. This case study explores the efforts of the Louie B. Nunn …
Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/06/is-perfect-the-enemy-of-good-enough/
Digital Video Preservation and Oral History by Kara Van Malssen Preserving digital video requires addressing the entire life cycle of the content, from pre-production, to capture, edit, archiving, and providing access. Decisions made at the point of creation have implications for the other stages down the road. It is important to understand these implications and …
Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/06/digital-video-preservation-and-oral-history/
Metadata: Best Practices for Oral History Access and Preservation by Elinor A. Mazé Senior Editor Baylor University Institute for Oral History In its Principles for Oral History and Best Practices for Oral History, the Oral History Association includes the following: Interviewers, sponsoring institutions, and institutions charged with the preservation of oral history interviews should understand that …
Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/06/metadata/
The Preservation of Analog Oral History Collections through Digitization by Sarah Cunningham The deterioration of analog sound carriers is a significant danger to Oral History Collections. This dilemma coupled with the obsolescence of vintage playback creates a need for the digitization of oral history recordings. In addition to preserving recordings, most archives have a …
Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/06/preservation-of-analog-collections-through-digitization/
Case Study: Interviewer-Generated Metadata by Doug Boyd In the old days, interviewers conducted the interviews, stored them in a box of cassettes for some time, and, eventually, deposited the interviews into an archive where the archivists took over the responsibility for curation, preservation, and future access. In the analog world, it was common for a …
Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/06/interviewer-generated-metadata/
Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries has written on his blog Digital Omnium a post about the importance of checksums and the digital preservation of oral history. The post, titled : A Simple Act of Digital Preservation: The Checksum and Oral History, features a video introduction/tutorial. Tweet
Permanent link to this article: https://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/06/resource-tutorial-on-checksum-for-digital-preservation-of-oral-history/
Recent Comments