Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for cross-postings, but there is still plenty of space left to register for the upcoming IMAP digital video preservation workshop in Houston, Texas, November 10, 2010. Led by Linda Tadic, an expert in both moving image archiving and digital asset management, this workshop promises to be extremely informative.
As an incentive, the Academy of Certified Archivists (ACA) recently approved the workshop for continuing education credit.
Details are below. Please feel free to forward to anyone who might be interested, and if you have any questions, direct them to imap@imappreserve.org.
All the best,
Heather
Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP)
Presents a Workshop on
Digital Preservation for Video
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Co-sponsored by Aurora
Picture Show, Houston Cinema Arts Society, The Menil Collection, The
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Southwest Alternate Media Project
If
content on analog videotape is to survive for the long term, the tapes
must be digitized--moved from the unstable magnetic media on which the
content is currently held, into the digital realm where--in theory--they
can be preserved indefinitely and migrated forward as files rather than
physical objects. Digitization, however, means more than simply
selecting a destination file format. It requires a series of decisions
that will determine the long-term viability of files created--and thus
of the valuable video content. Workshop topics include: basic digital
file creation, preservation and access file formats and codecs,
software, storage and trusted digital repositories, workflows for
digitization, and technical and preservation metadata. In addition,
participants will examine case studies of small and large-scale
digitization projects in order to understand real-world applications of
principles introduced in the workshop.
As part of the 2010 Cinema Arts Festival Houston’s Meet the Makers
series, a panel and video clip presentation will follow the workshop.
Linda Tadic will moderate a discussion of issues in audiovisual
preservation with representatives from the Menil Collection, MFAH, and
SWAMP. This free public program will take place at the Freed Auditorium
of MFAH’s Glassell School of Art from 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. More information
at www.cinemartsociety.org
Presenter: Linda Tadic consults and lectures in areas of
digital asset management, audiovisual and digital preservation, and
metadata. She is Executive Director of the Audiovisual Archive Network (www.archivenetwork.org),
and an adjunct professor in New York University’s Moving Image
Archiving and Preservation graduate degree program, teaching two core
courses: Collection Management, and Access to Moving Image Collections.
Ms. Tadic’s over 25 years experience working with and managing
audiovisual, digital, and broadcasting collections includes the
positions of Manager of the Digital Library at Home Box Office (HBO),
and Director of the Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the
University of Georgia. She is the past Director of Operations for
ARTstor.
Workshop location:
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
American General Conference Room
Audrey Jones Beck Building
5601 Main Street at Binz
Houston, TX 77005
Phone: 713-639-7733
www.mfah.org
Workshop fee and registration:
$100 Aurora, HCAS, Menil, MFAH, SWAMP, and IMAP members
$150 non-members
$50 artists and students
Pre-payment is required with registration.
Space is limited.
Register at www.imappreserve.org
Inquiries: imap@imappreserve.org
IMAP programs are supported, in part, by
the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the
Arts, and from individual contributions.
Participants will receive Archival Recertification Credits (ARCs) from the Academy of Certified Archivists (ACA).
--
Heather Nodler
Artists Documentation Program Archivist
The Menil Collection
1511 Branard
Houston, TX 77006
713-535-3116 phone
713-525-9420 fax
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