Performance of Abel Gance’s 1927 masterpiece Napoleon, September 24, 2007 at the Coliseum in Rome with the Triptych being shown on an 8.5 x 33 meter screen. The screen was built next to the Arch of Constantine on the Plazza del Colloseo, with the seating area and projection room in the Via de San Gregorio. Napoleon image copyright; Zoetrope Corporation and The Film Preserve, Ltd, with permission Courtesy: Boston Light & Sound, Inc.
Resources

General Resources

The AMIA Education Committee has put together a list of links to reports, guides, blogs and podcasts, conferences, webinars and other resources you may find useful.

This is not a definitive list, so please let us know of information and links to add. Inclusion on the list does not equal an endorsement of the material.

Guides

Disaster Recovery for Audiovisual Materials

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

General

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) 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 Format ID Guide Various Guides and Inspection Forms provided by different Ins on AMIA Open Source GitHub

Cataloging

FIAF Moving Image Cataloging Manual (May 2016) PBCore 2.1 (08/2015) is a metadata standard designed to describe media, both digital and analog. Archival Moving Image Materials: A Cataloging Manual (2nd Edition) (AMIM2) ARSC Guide to Audio Preservation (May 2015) by ARSC, CLIR, and NRPB
-Chapter 5. Description of Audio Recordings Guidelines for Processing Collections with Audiovisual Material (April 2015) by Megan McShea, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute
-Chapter 5. AV Description in EAD using Archivists’ Toolkit BibFrame AV Modeling Study (2014) OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards (4th edition)

Digital

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

Film

Film Data Code Charts – Kodak The Film Preservation Guide (2004) by the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) Timeline of Historical Film Colors by Barbara Flueckiger 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.

Film Exhibition

AMIA Theatre Presentation Guidelines

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 Preservation Fact Sheets (2002) FAQ on Video Formats and Preservation (1999)

Open Source

AMIA Open Source on Github

Outsourcing

Solid partners, flexible solutions. Do’s and don’ts in tendering for audiovisual mass-digitization Slides by Brecht Declercq, 2014 VIAA Guide to Developing a Request for Proposal for the Digitization of Audio, JUNE 18, 2015, AVPreserve white paper

Recorded Sound

ARSC Guide to Audio Preservation (May 2015) by ARSC, CLIR, and NRPB Handling and Storage of Audio and Video Carriers (IASA-TC-05) (2014) Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects (IASA-TC 04) (2nd Ed. 2009)
Available in multiple languages.

Storage

Storage Standards and Guidelines

Reports

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

Preservation for Filmmakers

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

Blogs, Playlists, and Podcasts

AMIA 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 PrestoCentre SAA SNAP Roundtable Silent Film Music Students and New Archives Professionals (SNAP) Roundtable (SAA) UCLA Film and Television Archive UCLA Archival Spaces: Memory, Images, History WGBH Open Vault

Podcasts

More Podcast, Less Process Preservation Imperative Into the Archives Archivist's Alley The Kodakery

Films and Video Playlists

Films about moving image and sound archiving

Playlists of AV Archiving Events

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

Education Committee YouTube Playlists

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

Education Committee Vimeo Playlists

Presentations and Webinars General Interest AV Archives and Collections

Websites

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 
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