It was my privilege to co-present at this year’s PARBICA Conference held in September at The University of Auckland. The conference title was ‘Footprints in Space and Time’....
After my previous post, Tips and tricks for recovering your oral history and sound collections from magnetic audio tape, I wanted to share an interesting experience from a couple of...
For any organisation with a film, video or audiotape collection that is considering digitising some or all of its content, one of the first key steps is to clearly think through and...
There is an ever-decreasing time window to complete the digitisation process for AV material before the small pool of equipment in operable condition required for the replay of traditional...
The size of investment required to take on a video digitisation projects can grow into many thousand dollars, and that kind of funding isn’t always easy to come by. At the same time,...
It was my privilege to co-present at this year’s PARBICA Conference held in September at The University of Auckland. The conference title was ‘Footprints in Space and Time’....
After my previous post, Tips and tricks for recovering your oral history and sound collections from magnetic audio tape, I wanted to share an interesting experience from a couple of...
For any organisation with a film, video or audiotape collection that is considering digitising some or all of its content, one of the first key steps is to clearly think through and...
There is an ever-decreasing time window to complete the digitisation process for AV material before the small pool of equipment in operable condition required for the replay of traditional...
The size of investment required to take on a video digitisation projects can grow into many thousand dollars, and that kind of funding isn’t always easy to come by. At the same time,...
AV media is not getting any younger, and one of the big questions we commonly get asked is “what do I need to worry about the most - technology obsolescence or failing media? The...
DAMsmart has been working with the Fijian Government to digitise the National Archive’s film and video collection, and to commission a Media Asset Management (MAM) system for the...
I had the opportunity to talk about the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) at the SEAPAVAA conference in Bangkok. The theme of the conference was 'Redefining The Audiovisual Archives...
DAMsmart has recently completed a digitisation project for WIN Corporation and Crawford Productions PTY LTD, digitising iconic Australian Television series from the 60’s though to...
To extend on my previous post, technical metadata is critical in a multi stream video digitisation environment with video originating from many different formats. Fully or semi-automated...
DAMsmart has undertaken a project to digitise all of the local news content produced by Prime Orange, starting from 1962 through to 2008. The material, in due course, will be made...