By Darrell Myers, Post Production and Quality Control Manager – Film, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University Attendees of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) 28th annual Archival Screening Night were treated to a unique look inside the MDPI film digitization process on November 29, 2018 at the Northwest Film Center in Portland,… Read more »
Entries by MDPI
UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
by Dennis Cromwell, Executive Director, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University Thirteen years ago, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization declared October 27 as the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. This day is celebrated to raise awareness of the need to “take urgent measures” to safeguard and preserve the world’s audio, video, and… Read more »
MDPI and the Art of Google Books
by Patrick Feaster, Media Preservation Specialist, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University If you spend much time exploring Google Books, you’ve surely seen your fair share of anomalies: stray images of workers’ hands, motion-blurred pages caught in the act of being turned, that sort of thing. There’s a whole community of enthusiasts out there… Read more »
One Second a Day – Formats
by Casey Burgess, Intern, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University My name is Casey Burgess and I am an intern at MDPI. When I was asked to put together a “1 Second Everyday” video focusing on objects that MDPI has digitized, I was concerned with how to showcase objects. I definitely didn’t need to… Read more »
Where the Wild Things Are: Audio Oddities at IU – Part 2: Discs
by Dan Figurelli, Audio Preservation Engineer, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University; Melissa Widzinski, Audio Preservation Engineer, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University; and Jonathan Richardson, Audio Visual Specialist, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University Edited by Adam Nickel, Processing and Quality Control Specialist, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University The content of this post… Read more »
One Second a Day at MDPI
by Mike Casey, Director of Technical Operations, Audio/Video, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University Digitally preserving over 275,000 audio and video recordings, and then adding film, in less than three years is no trivial matter! The scale of this project is huge and its challenges are wide-ranging, complex, and ever-present. You probably already knew this,… Read more »
The Comfort in Hearing Home
by Barbara Truesdell, Assistant Director, Center for the Study of History and Memory, Indiana University On October 16, 2017, the Indiana Daily Student published an article in the student life section entitled, “Hearing Home” written by Lydia Gerike. The article described how freshman Elizabeth Ketzner had the opportunity to hear the voice of her grandfather,… Read more »
The Island of Misfit Tapes
by Jonathan Richardson, Audio Visual Specialist, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative and Rob Mobley, Video Preservation Engineer, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative Here at MDPI we deal with our fair share of decaying media. One of the most problematic video tape formats is U-matic, also referred to as ¾”. Any video preservation engineer who has been in the business long… Read more »
Where Do You Belong? Challenges in Sorting Open Reel Audio Tapes (Part Two)
by Sam Springman, Unit Manager, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University Until May 2016, MDPI sorted open reel audio tapes into groups for digitization based almost entirely on a straightforward physical inspection: looking at the tapes themselves, reading the technical information written or printed on their boxes, and so forth. That approach worked well… Read more »
Where the Wild Things Are: Audio Oddities at IU – Part 1: Tapes
by Dan Figurelli, Audio Preservation Engineer, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University; Melissa Widzinski, Audio Preservation Engineer, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University; and Jonathan Richardson, Audio Visual Specialist, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University Edited by Adam Nickel, Processing and Quality Control Specialist, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University The content of this post… Read more »