[WEB4LIB] Audio and video archiving

[Walt_Crawford at notes.rlg.org]

Gary,

While this won't answer your direct questions, once you deal with
digitizing for preservation, you should be reading "RLG DigiNews" as an
ongoing resource. It's free and doesn't require RLG membership. (I'm not
involved with it in any way, but I've read enough of them to see that it's
expert work and excellent background.)

Here's the link:

http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/

-walt crawford, who does work for RLG albeit not in preservation!-


                                                                                                                        
                    "Gary Benton"                                                                                       
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What kind of equipment and software are needed for audio and video
archiving? We have film movies, obsolete videotape formats and so on in our
archives. We want to preserve these materials and make them available on
the web.

What formats (WAV, AVI...) would you recommend for preservation?
What formats (MPEG...) would you recommend for web distribution?

Can anyone point me to sources of info in this area?

Thanks!

Gary

Gary Benton
Library Systems Technician
Walla Walla College



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