At the recent Keeping Tracks symposium held at the British Library, AV scoping analyst Adam Tovell stated that ‘there is consensus internationally that we as archivists have a 10-20 year window of opportunity in which to migrate the content of our physical sound collections to stable digital files. After the end of this 10-20 year… Continue reading Future tape archaeology: speculations on the emulation of analogue environments
Tag: Digital Preservation
Digital preservation – a selection of online resources
Update 2020: We are updating and maintaining this list of useful web links in the Resources section of our website here: Digital and Audiovisual Preservation – Online Resources If you are new to the world of digital preservation, you may be feeling overwhelmed by the multitude of technical terms and professional practices to contend with,… Continue reading Digital preservation – a selection of online resources
Software Across Borders? The European Archival Records and Knowledge Preservation (E-Ark) Project
The latest big news from the digital preservation world is that the European Archival Records and Knowledge Preservation – (E-Ark), a three year, multinational research project, has received a £6M award from the European Commission ‘to create a revolutionary method of archiving data, addressing the problems caused by the lack of coherence and interoperability between the… Continue reading Software Across Borders? The European Archival Records and Knowledge Preservation (E-Ark) Project