Incandescent Love, courtesy of the NFI Hungary Film Archive and the Association of Moving Image Archivists, Archival Screening Night Roadshow 2021
Resources

AMIA Resources

Most of AMIA’s publications, guides, and resources are developed through our committees, task forces, and working groups. These resources are intended to serve the full community of audiovisual archivists.

Tools

Open Source
AMIA’s Open Source Committee uses GitHub for collaboration on resources that support the preservation and use of moving image media.

AMIA Open Source GitHub Analog Guides and Inspection Forms audiorecorder Cable Bible ffmprovisr open workflows vrecord

 

Film Shrinkage Gauge
The gauge can be used to measure the linear shrinkage in any roll of 35mm, 16mm or regular 8mm film. The Shrinkage Gauge is available for loan at no charge to members. If you are not a member and wish to borrow the Shrinkage Gauge, contact amia@amianet.org.

Borrow the Film Shrinkage Gauge About the Film Shrinkage Gauge

 

Waveform Monitor/Vector Scope
The Waveform Monitor is available for loan at no charge to members. If you are not a member and wish to borrow the Monitor, contact amia@amianet.org.

Borrow the Waveform Monitor

Recordings

Webinars Past Webinars AMIA Conference Sessions Digital Asset Symposium Sessions Films about moving image and sound archiving

Guides & Publications

Cataloging & Metadata
Community contributions to the Collaborative DEI Controlled Vocabulary Resource List are welcome, but please make sure to add suggestions in “Comments” mode.

Collaborative DEI Controlled Vocabulary Resource List

 

Disaster Recovery for Audiovisual Materials

An FAQ on Film: Water Damage and Getting Your Films to a Lab Disaster Recovery for Films in Flooded Areas (Mick Newnham) Disaster Recovery Salvaging Tapes Checklist Disaster Recovery for Tapes in Flooded Areas First Actions: Film, Tape, and Discs Disaster Planning (NFSA) Disaster Recovery Checklist (SPEC Bros) First Aid for Water Damage (NFSA) First Aid for Fire Damage (NFSA) Washing and Handling Wet Film (video)

 

Film

Home Film Preservation Guide Online Small Gauge and Amateur Film Bibliography (2020 Revision - Collaborative Google Doc)

 

Local Television

Local Television: A Guide to Saving Our Heritage by the AMIA Local Television Task Force Case Study: KSTP and the Minnesota Historical Society Case Study: Northeast Historic Film/Maine Television Stations Case Study: WGBH in Boston Case Study: The Pennsylvania Cable Network Case Study: The Arkansas Educational Television Network

 

Magnetic Tape

Videotape Handbook by Jim Wheeler (2002) Videotape Preservation Fact Sheets (2002) Magnetic Tape Format FAQ (1999)

 

Storage

Storage Standards and Guidelines

 

Oral Histories

Alan Kattelle Oral History Project Sid Laverents Oral History AMIA 25th Anniversary Oral Histories Capturing Changing Technologies: Oral History Interviews with Technicians, Archivists, and Media Creators

AMIA Tech Review

AMIA Tech Review - Volumen 1 (2010) AMIA Tech Review - Volumen 2 (2010) AMIA Tech Review - Volumen 3 (2011) AMIA Tech Review - Volumen 4 (2012)
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