Open Source Digital Preservation for Audiovisual Archives

Even though we have seen advancements in digital preservation for audio-visual collections in the past 10 years, many smaller audio-visual archives are yet to see the access benefits of digital preservation to achieve maximum collection management benefits and high value access in digitising existing analogue collections. Multi-ingest digitisation infrastructure is expensive to purchase and harder to justify for smaller collections, large scale digital preservation technologies can be expensive and specialist knowledge is required for their configuration and maintenance. Reliable playback technology is hard to locate, spare parts are rare, and the expertise to maintain and calibrate analogue audio-visual technology is now held by a dwindling amount of engineers.
DAMsmart proposes to alleviate the restrictions around migration of analogue audio-visual material by providing a service that digitises audio and video to standard based preservation worthy formats, and populate an open source, fully supported OAIS digital preservation system configured on small footprint, green technology to meet the needs of the organisation.

Date: 
11 OCTOBER THURSDAY
Start time: 
10:00
Venue: 
Auditorium
Title (author 1): 
Mr
First names (author 1): 
Andrew
Surname (author 1): 
Martin
Institution: 
DAMsmart Media Migration
Country: 
AUSTRALIA
presentation type: 
spoken