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

Audiovisual Archiving: Philosophy and Principles by Ray Edmondson (3rd Edition, 2016) Audiovisual Formats: A Guide to Identification by California Audiovisual Preservation Project Digital Preservation Sound and Vision: Policy, Standards and Procedures. Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (2016) Format ID Guide Guidelines for Processing Collections with Audiovisual Material (May 2015) by Megan McShea, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute Preservation 101 (NEDCC) Session 6. Media Collections Preservation Self-Assessment Program (PSAP) University of Illinois Libraries Various Guides and Inspection Forms provided by different Ins on AMIA Open Source GitHub

FIAF Moving Image Cataloging Manual (2016) ARSC Guide to Audio Preservation by ARSC, CLIR, and NRPB
 – Chapter 5: Description of Audio Recordings (2015) Guidelines for Processing Collections with Audiovisual Material by Megan McShea, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute
 (2015) PBCore 2.1 is a metadata standard designed to describe both digital and analog media (2015) BibFrame AV Modeling Study (2014) OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards (4th Edition, 2008) Archival Moving Image Materials: A Cataloging Manual, AMIM2 (2nd Edition, 2000)

Digital Preservation Guide (Digital Preservation Coalition, 2nd Edition, 2015) Preserving and Emulating Digital Art Objects (Cornell University Library, November 2015) A short guide to choosing a digital format for video archiving masters (PACKED vzw, 2014) A Primer on Codecs for Moving Image and Sound Archives (AVPreserve, 2010) A Preservation Guide for Technology-Based Artworks (Prepared by the Conservation and Preservation Committee, DOCAM)

Film Data Code Charts – Kodak The Film Preservation Guide (2004) by the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) Inspection and Condition Reports Various Institutions have shared their forms on AMIA Open Source GitHub Kodak Key Kode (Extended Edge Code) Diagrams Identify the string of numbers and letters on the edge of Eastman stocks. Timeline of Historical Film Colors by Barbara Flueckiger

AMIA Theatre Presentation Guidelines

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

Videotape Preservation Fact Sheets (2002) Magnetic Tape Format FAQ (1999)

AMIA Open Source on Github

Solid partners, flexible solutions. Do’s and don’ts in tendering for audiovisual mass-digitization Slides by Brecht Declercq (2014) Guide to Developing a Request for Proposal for the Digitization of Audio by Chris Lacinak, AVPreserve (2015)

ARSC Guide to Audio Preservation by ARSC, CLIR and NRPB (2015) Handling and Storage of Audio and Video Carriers, IASA Technical Committee (Web Edition, 2014) Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects, IASA Technical Committee (Web Edition, 2009)


Storage Standards and Guidelines

BibFrame AV Modeling Study (2014) Eye Collection Policy (2014-2017) Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929 (2013) Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan (2012) The Digital Dilemma 2: Perspectives from Independent Filmmakers, Documentarians and Nonprofit Audiovisual Archives (2012) Meeting the Challenge of Media Preservation: Strategies and Solutions (2011) The State of Recorded Sound Preservation in the United States: A National Legacy at Risk in the Digital Age (2010) The Digital Dilemma (2007)

Check Your Film Before You Wreck Your Film How to Save Your Film and Tape What We Mean by Restoration At Minimum: The 3-2-1 Strategy Tips on How to Archive Your Film Why You Need to Preserve Your Work

ARSC AVPreserve British Library – Sound and Vision El Documentalista Audiovisual EUScreenXL George Eastman House Harvard Film Archive Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive Library of Congress, Now See Hear! Library of Congress, The Signal, Digital Preservation Media Preservation Initiative at Indiana University Bloomington National Archives, The Unwritten Record National Digital Stewardship Residency – Boston National Digital Stewardship Residency – New York Northwest Chicago Film Society Northeast Historic Film Oddball Films SAA SNAP Roundtable Silent Film Music SAA Students and New Archives Professionals (SNAP) Section UCLA Film & Television Archive WGBH Open Vault

Archives In Context Archivist's Alley Into the Archives More Podcast, Less Process Preservation Imperative Preserve This Podcast The Kitchen Sisters The Kodakery

Films about moving image and sound archiving

AMIA Streaming (includes recordings of the AMIA Conference, DAS, interviews, etc.) Code4Lib

Presentations and Webinars AV Archives and Collections Format and Technical History General Interest

Presentations and Webinars AV Archives and Collections General Interest

Activist Archivist A/V Artifact Atlas (hosted by BAVC) Archive Grid Archives at Risk Archivo Regional de Cine Amateur (ARCA) (Argentina) British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC) California Audiovisual Preservation Project Digital Film Historiography – A Bibliography (Christian Gosvig Olesen, PhD candidate, University of Amsterdam) Film Care The Film Foundation Film Heritage Foundation (India) Fondazione Cineteca di Bolognia (Italy) Image Permanence Institute Moving Image Archive News National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) (Library of Congress) National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB) (Library of Congress) National Recording Preservation Plan (Library of Congress) PACKED vzw (Belgium) PBCore Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary Project PrestoCentre Foundation ProjectARCC SCART (website on audiovisual heritage by PACKED) Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive (in Hebrew) Timeline of Historical Film Colors World Cinema Project World Day for Audio Visual Heritage