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Preservation Guide - Introduction

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL AUDIOVISUAL PRESERVATION GUIDE

which was created for PrestoSpace and the BBC by Richard Wright, BBC in May 2006
and migrated to a PrestoSpace home in December 2006.

News Flash: PrestoSpace Integrated Website: All the online results from PrestoSpace in one place, fully integrated!
http://digitalpreservation.ssl.co.uk/

This site will remain; it stil gets several thousand visits per month (2256 in April 2008, according to Awstats) -- but all new information since December 2006 is on http://wiki.prestospace.org/

The plan is to maintain only one version, as two versions are confusing. The site will morph into a website covering global audiovisual preservation-and-access and related activities.

General Guide to Audiovisual Preservation

Is this your problem?

A mixed audiovisual collection
Henry Hampton Collection, photo: Howard Besser

If you have audiovisual media, it needs maintenance – or you will lose it. This guide shows how to:

• conserve old formats
• digitise for transfer to new formats
• create digital file formats
• use digital restoration
• use mass storage
• provide electronic and web access

Those are just the technologies – some strategic thinking is also needed:

• at the institution level: where you are, where you want to get
• at the project level: how to run an efficient preservation project

The strategic issues raise other ‘how to’ issues, which this guide also covers:

• how to estimate costs – for specific projects and for long-term maintenance
• how to fund preservation

So, where to start? The navigation guide shows the organisation of the information. Each topic gives basic information, plus where to look for more if needed.

If you want to add to this wiki, just contact the editor for instructions.

Specific Credits and Acknowledgements

Installation details: this wiki is currently running on PmWiki pmwiki-2.2.0-beta65, version no. 2001965.