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  1. Issues in Physical Preservation Panel Preservation

    Looking Back/Looking Forward: A Symposium on Electronic Media Preservation: contents Presentors: Luke Hones (Artists Television Access), Jon Selsey (Bay Area Video Coalition), Heather Weaver (BAVC) and Kacey Koeberer (BAVC) Kacey Koeberer Jon Selsey Luke Hones and Jon Selsey SHERRY MILLER HOCKING: I…

  2. Learning More About Video Preservation Preservation

    Selected bibliography and online resource list for moving-image and audiovisual preservation, comprising journals, technical reports, handbooks, conference proceedings and institutional reports published between 1974 and 2001; contributors include AMIA, Ampex, 3M, UNESCO, FIAF, the Library of Congress and the National Archives. The record cites specific titles, articles and manuals, provides URLs for online bibliographies, and lists education and training programs and institutions such as Harvard, UCLA, George Eastman House, NYU, ARCHIMEDIA and the FIAF Summer School.

  3. Looking Back/Looking Forward: A Symposium on Electronic Media Preservation Preservation

    Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Agenda Issues in Physical Preservation Panel Economics of Physical Preservation Panel Media Formats Update Panel Assessing a Collection for Preservation Issues in Capturing Related Histories Panel What's Next? An Open Discussion Reports to the Field Im…

  4. Media Formats Update Panel Preservation

    Mona Jimenez and Steina Vasulka presented Media Formats Update at the Experimental Television Center symposium Looking Back/Looking Forward on May 31–June 1, 2002; they surveyed tape and deck durability, signal characteristics, format obsolescence and reformatting cycles. The panel discussed specific formats (Beta SP, SVHS, mini-DV, DvCam, DVC Pro, the D family including D-1, Beta SX), optical media and DVDs, and addressed cleaning, playback problems, compression, digitization workflows, server storage and retrieval; BAVC, Visual Studies Workshop and the Grand Rapids Community Media Center were referenced.

  5. Operating a Remastering Facility Preservation

    BAVC operated a remastering center transferring obsolete formats such as 1/2" open-reel tape; transfers involved cleaning machines, playback decks and manual procedures that could take several hours and required trained technicians (early pay noted as $15/hour) and a 20% income reserve for maintenance. The center secured preservation funding and organized Playback 96: Video Roundtable, partnered with NIPAD to train dance companies, and sought support from sources such as the NEA Heritage and Preservation Program. Staff proposed research into tape baking, integrated cleaning/playback machines, magnetic transfer methods, uncompressed nonlinear workflows (Avid Symphony/D1), archival data formats (DLT/D1) and collaboration with WGBH's Universal Preservation Format Initiative.

  6. Origination Formats and Machines Preservation

    Technical overview of origination formats, playback machines and transfer procedures used at BAVC; describes Sony 1/2" open-reel CV (skip-field) and AV series decks and 3/4" U-matic BVU/VO machines. Equipment cited includes the Sony CV-2100, AV-8650 (AV-3600/3650/8600), BVU-800, VO-9850, an 8-pin EIAJ-to-BNC adapter and a Sony BVT-810 time base corrector; issues covered include EIAJ vs skip-field compatibility, connector types, audio level matching (+4 db vs mini plug), termination, sync and time code handling. Also documents operational practices for rewinding and end-of-tape sensor workarounds and an experiment to improve skip-field image detail.

  7. Preservation and Conservation Organizations -  Profiles and Links Preservation

    Annotated directory of preservation organizations, working groups, publications and online resources addressing moving image, audio, magnetic media and digital preservation; sections cover archivists, library organizations, conservators, technical standards, information services, audio preservation, digital preservation and listservs. Entries include AMIA, SAA, ALA, CLIR (Commission on Preservation and Access), Library of Congress, RLG (with a 1997–98 NARAS-funded project), AIC and EMSIG (formed 1997), Image Permanence Institute (RIT, Rochester, NY), National Media Laboratory (hosted by 3M), SMPTE, WGBH UPF, IMAP, Media Alliance (founded 1979; 1991 survey and conference), ARSC, AES, IASA, InterPARES and the Internet Archive; the text cites reports, manuals and listservs for further information.

  8. Preservation Formats Preservation

    BAVC discusses controversies in choosing recording formats for video preservation and cites that the Minnesota Historical Society, advised by 3M technicians, chose S-VHS. The text identifies preferred transfer targets as S-VHS, Betacam SP, Digital Betacam and D1 and discusses trade-offs including Digital Betacam's 2:1 DCT compression and the use of TBCs. It lists formats not recommended for preservation transfers, naming 8mm/Hi-8, MII, DCT, DV/Digital 8, Betacam SX, DVD and several older one-inch and digital formats, and notes equipment and availability concerns.

  9. Preservation Links Preservation

    Compiled list of web references used in the Preservation area; entries comprise archival bodies, professional associations, museums, conservation and media preservation organizations, technical vendors and preservation initiatives. Notable institutions cited include the Library of Congress, American Film Institute, George Eastman House Selznick School of Film Preservation, UCLA Film and Television Archive, National Film Preservation Foundation and WGBH Universal Preservation Format Initiative. The list also cites regional alliances, laboratories and specialty service providers for audiovisual and document conservation.

  10. Preservation Planning and Management Preservation

    Preservation Planning and Management provides guidance and a list of consultants and resources for audiovisual preservation, organized under sections for consultants, project planning and management, collection assessment and surveys, collection management, appraisals, and resources. It cites James C. Scholtz’s Developing and Maintaining Video Collections in Libraries (Santa Barbara, CA: CLIO, 1989) and notes the Magnetic Media Preservation Sourcebook available from Media Alliance; listings are provided as a service and are not endorsements by Media Alliance or the Experimental Television Center. Named consultants and institutions (including Boston Art Conservation; Heritage Resource Management Associates; Hollywood Vaults; the Image Permanence Institute at RIT; VidiPax; and others) are described with services such as collection assessment, appraisal, storage and environmental surveys, disaster planning, grant consultation, cataloging, and technical research on temperature, humidity and pollutants.

  11. Preservation Terms and Definitions:  Publications, Resources and Links Preservation

    Collection of links and bibliographic references to glossaries and definitions for video preservation, consulting and treatment services, general archival terminology, audio archives, and media reformatting. Includes Video Preservation: Glossary of Terms by Rebecca Bachman (originally published 1996; reprinted in Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video, Bay Area Video Coalition, 1998); Obsolescence Ratings by Sarah Stauderman in the Video Format Identification Guide; and Magnetic Tape Storage and Handling by Dr. John W. Van Bogart (Commission on Preservation and Access, June 1995). Also lists the Magnetic Media Preservation Sourcebook (Media Alliance, 1998), resources from AIC, IASA, ARSC, ScreenSound Australia, ACVL, and references to SMPTE materials and digital conversion glossaries.

  12. Reel to Real: A Case Study of BAVC's Remastering Model Preservation

    Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Background on the BAVC Model Elements of the Remastering Process Tape Preparation and Cleaning Origination Formats and Machines Preservation Formats Components of the Remastering System Care of the Facility Documentation of Cleaning and Remastering Ope…

  13. Reports to the Field Preservation

    Experimental Television Center convened Looking Back/Looking Forward on May 31–June 1, 2002 at Downtown Community Television Center in New York, bringing over 50 media arts professionals, conservators, technicians and artists to address physical preservation of independent electronic media, related tools and ephemera. Sessions led by BAVC, Artists Television Access, George Eastman House and MoMA examined remastering workflows (including 1/2” open reel), formats, selection strategies, economics, oral histories and web documentation; BAVC received NEA funding to produce a videotape preservation DVD. The Video History Project, launched 2000 and directed by Sherry Miller Hocking with major contribution from Mona Jimenez, maintains resource databases and commissioned papers including Video Preservation: The Basics.

  14. Storage Guidelines Preservation

    Practical guidelines for short-term storage of videotapes recommend access storage at 60–73?F and 20–30% RH and advise lower temperatures for archival storage; access conditions are expected to keep tapes usable for ten years and fluctuations should be limited (no more than 7?F and 5–20% RH). The document advises monitoring temperature and humidity, allowing tapes to equilibrate before playback, choosing windowless, well-insulated rooms without carpets or food, using grounded metal shelving, storing tapes upright, avoiding magnetic fields, and storing duplicates separately. Cited resources include Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video (BAVC, 1998), Library of Congress Television and Video Preservation (1997), CLIR and Van Bogart reports, SMPTE RP 103-1995 and RP 190-1996, and links to ANSI, CLIR, NML and Solinet.

  15. Support and Funding Preservation

    U.S. foundations, agencies and professional organizations offering funding and technical assistance for conservation and moving-image and sound archiving. Programs cited include FAIC (three-year Kress grant for publication fellowships); AMIA (Mary Pickford and SONY scholarships, $3,000); BAVC (in-kind facility access including 1/2" open-reel decks and $1,500 access grants); IMLS (Conservation Project Support, Conservation Assessment Program, National Leadership Grants up to $50,000 or $75,000); NEA (grants $5,000–$200,000, match at least one to one); NEH and other state, private and nonprofit funders including NHPRC, NIPAD ($1.5 million), New York State Library, NYWIFT and VidiPax.

  16. Tape Formats and Hardware - Research and Planning Efforts Preservation

    Compiled directory of research, reference works and online sources concerning obsolete and endangered videotape formats and playback hardware. Entries cite organizations and projects including Experimental Television Center (Video History Project Tools), Independent Media Arts Preservation (resource-guide development), Media Alliance (Magnetic Media Preservation Sourcebook) and Specs Brothers (tape restoration); published references include Ampex, A Guide to Media and Formats (Redwood City, CA: Ampex, 1989) and Murphy, Television and Video Preservation (Library of Congress, 1997); online guides listed include Ampex Virtual Museum, Stauderman's Video Format Identification Guide (AIC Electronic Media SIG), VidiPax, and hardware resources such as AMIA-L, Dave Jones Design and the Dead Media Project.

  17. Tape Preparation and Cleaning Preservation

    BAVC evaluated four tape-preparation methods (no preparation, washing, baking, cleaning machines) and chose to adopt tape-cleaning machines, postponing washing and baking until after implementing the machine method. The organization selected a Recortec VTE-200 (located less than sixty miles from BAVC in San Jose, CA) based on a 1982 NASA report and a 1985 Video Networks article by Sharon Grace; the VTE-200 uses tissue, slotted metal grids with vacuum, a sapphire block and a vacuum chamber to minimize tape tension. In 1995 BAVC tested up to 20 Recortec passes recorded to Betacam SP with no detectable degradation and found 2–5 passes (one pass ≈5 minutes) typically sufficient; Recortec now refurbs machines. Two years after starting 1/2" cleaning, BAVC purchased an RTI 3/4" U-matic cassette cleaner and recorded RTI contact information.

  18. Video Preservation - The Basics Preservation

    Table of Contents Acknowledgements Background and History Preservation Terms and Definitions: Publications, Resources and Links Video Terms Getting Started Preservation Planning and Management Preservation and Conservation Organizations - Profiles and Links Care and Handling of Tape Storage Guidelin…

  19. Video Terms Preservation

    Index of web resources and a concise technical glossary for videotape preservation and playback; includes external glossaries such as Conservation On Line and the IASA Glossary and a Video Format Identification Guide by Sarah Stauderman compiled for the Electronic Media Special Interest Group of the American Institute for Conservation. The Basic Technical Glossary defines physical tape conditions (blocking, creases, cinch, shedding, sticky tape, pack slip, vinegar syndrome), signal and playback issues (control track, time base, tracking, termination), and image/sound quality terms (chroma, luminance, S/N, dropout, snow, squeal).

  20. What's Next? An Open Discussion Preservation

    Open discussion facilitated by Dara Meyers-Kingsley (IMAP) and Luke Hones (Artists Television Access) at the Experimental Television Center symposium Looking Back/Looking Forward: A Symposium on Electronic Media Preservation, held May 31–June 1, 2002. Participants from BAVC, IMAP, EAI, Eastman House, NAMAC, DV Labs and others discussed tape-format preservation (Beta SP, Digital8, DV), documentation and cataloguing (pilot union catalogue, IMAP LISTSERV), technical approaches (non-invasive duplication, cleaning, manuals), ethics and conservation, online distribution/streaming and training and funding models.