Committees
This cookbook emerges from conversations about how degralescence has impacted current tape baking practices and necessitated changes to tape baking workflows as magnetic media continue to age. In an attempt to capture how the archival community it working now, over 50 recipes from more than 30 contributors have been compiled in one publication.
Cookbooks are slated to go to print this Fall an should be ready to ship by Christmas.
The mission of the Magnetic Media Crisis Committee (MMCC) is to support the archival community working to preserve audio and video magnetic media materials. The MMCC provides a collaborative space for knowledge-sharing, resource collection, project planning, advocacy, research, and development in order to promote awareness and develop concrete tools and strategies to cope with the growing crisis faced by magnetic media collections and the impacts of “degralescence.”
The MMCC seeks to establish, revise, and maintain best practices to promote sustainable workflows that address shifting and escalating issues involved in the preservation of magnetic media on both audio and video formats. To address this work holistically, we include the obsolescence of the playback equipment, technical knowledge and the capacity of the archivists working to preserve these materials, as well as the physical tape itself, to be part of the current Magnetic Media Crisis. As a collective, the MMCC’s aim is to work modularly so resources, knowledge, time and labor are strategically maximized. Instead of discussing “degralescence” as the impending doom of our profession, we need to come to terms with the possibility that it may have already arrived, but there is still action that can be taken! If we are willing to collaborate and think of this as a “human problem” there must also be “human solutions.”
AMIA’s current Magnetic Media Crisis Committee is different from the Magnetic Tape Crisis Committee (MTCC) which was active from 2013-2017. Read more about the MTCC.