Video archivists are required to be some of the most diverse users of tools and resources available today out of all video based professions and rich media archives.

To extend on my previous post, technical metadata is critical in a multi stream video digitisation environment with video originating from many different formats.

DAMsmart has undertaken a project to digitise all of the local news content produced by Prime Orange, starting from 1962 through to 2008.

One of the first key steps when considering a digitisation project is to clearly think through and delineate the reasons why digitisation is right for that particular collection.

No entity, large or small is immune from the issue of losing content on magnetic media or film.

We put together a short film to highlight the services we offer at DAMsmart when we travelled up to Broadcast Asia.

The Symposium program covers sessions titled Iconic Spaces, Iconic People and Iconic Events and features a range of speakers.

When you decide to undertake the digitisation of your collection, you want to consider not only the importance of capturing the original content in a record that is accurate and of preservation quality, but also the associated technical metadata.

Senator Kate Lundy recently gave a speech at the “HASS on the Hill” conference as part of a session on Accessing Australia: the challenges of digitisation.

I recently spent a week with the MWA Nova team in Berlin on a product training program.

Joe will be presenting at the 2011 SEAPAVAA conference being held in KL, Malaysia starting on June 6. The presentation considers questions surrounding outsourcing preservation and digitisation projects.

We will be exhibiting at Broadcast Asia 2011. Broadcast Asia is one of the regions largest digital multimedia and entertainment technology events. The event showcases emerging technologies in Film, TV and Digital Signage and gives the industry an opportunity to experience it first hand.

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