The UK’s audio collections have Save Our Sounds. The BFI recently launched Film is Fragile to support film preservation in the UK. Yet something is missing from these impassioned calls to preserve audiovisual heritage. As 2015 draws to a close, there is no comparable public campaign focused on the preservation of videotape. For James Patterson, from… Continue reading Video Tape Preservation – The Final Frontier
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Save Our Sounds’ £9.5 million boost
This article is a bit late to break this news, but it is worth highlighting again in case you missed it first time round. In May 2015 the British Library were awarded over £9.5 million pounds by the Heritage Lottery Fund to help them deliver their hugely important Save Our Sounds project. We told you… Continue reading Save Our Sounds’ £9.5 million boost
Save our Sounds – 2030 and the threat of audiovisual extinction
At the beginning of 2015, the British Library launched the landmark Save Our Sounds project. The press release explained: ‘The nation’s sound collections are under threat, both from physical degradation and as the means of playing them disappear from production. Archival consensus internationally is that we have approximately 15 years in which to save our sound collections… Continue reading Save our Sounds – 2030 and the threat of audiovisual extinction