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 »
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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 »
MDPI Celebrating 3 years of Operation and Industry Leadership
by Carla Arton, Director of Technical Operations for Film, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University Last month the Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative paused to celebrate three years of operation and industry leadership, much of which has been in tandem with Memnon Archiving – a Sony Company. Our mission, to digitally preserve Indiana University’s significant media… Read more »
Quality Control as Risk Management
by Mike Casey, Director of Technical Operations, Audio/Video, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University Quality Control as Risk Management In this post, I’ll continue exploring the quality control system developed for the audio/video side of the MDPI project. My earlier post on types of quality control ended with a discussion of risk-based QC. This… Read more »
Hope
by Mike Casey, Director of Technical Operations, Audio/Video, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. —Lin Yutang* For the past year, I have ended the Why Media Preservation Can’t Wait presentation… Read more »
Types of Quality Control
by Mike Casey, Director of Technical Operations, Audio/Video, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University At the ARSC conference a few weeks ago, I explored the quality control system we developed for the audio/video side of MDPI, including the different types of QC we use. At the highest level, we recognize two basic QC types:… 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 »