Open Source for Archives

The two-day Open Source for Archives workshop lead by Joshua Ng and Reto Kromer has been held at “AV Archiving Beyond Boundaries”, the SEAPAVAA Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, from 6 to 12 April 2018.

Lectures

• Open-Source Software for Archivists (PDF, 46 KB)
• On Audio-Visual File Formats (PDF, 2.4 MB)
• Film Digitisation (PDF, 2.3 MB)
• A Quick Introduction to Television (and Video) (PDF, 5.7 MB)

Practical sessions

• Used FFmpeg Commands
• A Quick Introduction to Bash Programming

Exercise Files

• Dufaycolor 2K TIFF (ZIP, 1.06 GB, MD5 = c2fdc0fc9290ebaa4757d69fadf3f38c)
• Quality Control (ZIP, 1.38 GB, MD5 = d933ed0d2079fa5cfec0009bb2e6c032)

Resources

Media Handling

• [Mick Newnham et al.]: Technical Preservation Handbook, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Canberra [s.d.]
• The Film Preservation Guide. The Basics for Archives, Libraries, and Museums. National Film Preservation Foundation, San Francisco CA 2004
• John W. C. Van Bogart: Magnetic Tape Storage and Handling. A Guide for Libraries and Archives. Commission on Preservation and Access, Washington DC; National Media Laboratory, St. Paul MN June 1995
• Fred R. Byers: Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs. A Guide for Librarians and Archivists. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD 2003

Film Identification

• Brian R. Pritchard: Identifying 16 mm Films. Staffs 2013
• Brian R. Pritchard: Identifying 35 mm Films. Staffs 2011
• Kodak Edge Codes by Code (PDF, 327 KB)
• Kodak and Dupont Edge Codes by Year (PDF, 97 KB)
• Kodak Edge Codes for 8 mm and 16 mm (PDF, 33 KB)
• 16 mm and 8 mm Camera Identification (PDF, 319 KB)

Video Identification

• Videotape Identification and Assessment Guide. Texas Commission on the Arts, Austin TX 2004
• AV Artifact Atlas – A resource for identifying errors and anomalies in analog and digital video.

Media Storage

• Peter Z. Adelstein: IPI Media Storage Quick Reference. 2^nd Edition. Image Permanence Institute, Rochester NY 2009 (PDF, 2.0 MB)
• Dew Point Calculator. Image Permanence Institute, Rochester NY [2008]
• Environmental Quick Reference. Image Permanence Institute, Rochester NY 2014 (PDF, 488 KB)

AMIA Open Source

• ffmprovisr – Repository of useful FFmpeg command lines for archivists.
• Analog Inspection – List of analog media inspection templates/forms.
• Open Workflows – List of open workflows and resources for audio-visual archiving.
• Time-based media art resources – Resources on the care and preservation of software-based art and media art.
• vrecord – An open-source video capture tool for archivists.
• audiorecorder – A free tool for the calibration and recording of analog audio signals.
• The Cable Bible – A guide to cables and connectors used for audiovisual technicians.
• LTOpers – Scripts for doing stuff with LTFS.

Additional Bibliography

• Ray Edmondson: Audiovisual Archiving: Philosophy and Principles. 3^rd Edition, Unesco, Paris 2016
• Diana Weynand and Vance Piccin with Marcus Weise: How Video Works. From Broadcast to the Cloud. Third Edition. Focal Press, New York NY and Oxon 2016
• Blain Brown: The Filmmaker’s Guide to Digital Imaging. For Cinematographers, Digital Imaging Technicians and Camera Assistants. Focal Press, New York NY and Oxon 2015
• Angela Dappert, Rebecca Squire Guenther and Sébastien Peyrard (Editors): Digital Preservation Metadata for Practitioners. Implementing PREMIS. Springer, Cham 2016
• Digital Archiving of Film and Video: Principles and Guidance, Version 1.1, Memoriav, Bern 2017
• Reto Kromer: Matroska and FFV1: One File Format for Film and Video Archiving?. In Journal of Film Preservation, n. 96 (April 2017), FIAF, Brussels, Belgium, p. 41–45

2023-12-05