A few weeks ago Indicommons featured an excellent blog post by Deborah Wythe, Head of Digital Collections and Services at the Brooklyn Museum. She poses the question many of us frequently hear: Why isn’t everything digitized yet? She then proceeds with a nicely articulated description of some of the challenges, then quantifies them:
Posts Tagged as ‘digital preservation’
May 6, 2009
Archiving Project: Burma Humanitarian Mission
This report is from Jenn Blaylock, NYU Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program:
As my time interning at WITNESS Media Archive comes to a close I thought I’d share the details of the archival project that I’ve been working on with the archival blogosphere. Simply put, I organized and digitized a collection of over forty-six [...]
November 21, 2008
Notes on AMIA 2008: Part 2
A few more session highlights:
New Media Distribution Technologies. Brian Newman of Tribeca Film Institute gave a great presentation on Re:frame. Archivists, filmmakers, and distributors of independent film should know about Re:frame, which is making all kinds of previously unavailable or hard-to-find independent film available via DVD on demand and download [...]
November 19, 2008
Digital Asset Management and Institutional Repositories
It’s been a week packed with info sessions, as last week not only brought together moving image archivists from all over North America at the AMIA conference, but also featured a smaller scale workshop in the Metropolitan New York Area. 55 archivists from various domains gathered at NYU for the NY Archivist’s [...]
