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Pricing videotape digitation projects is not always straightforward. Different types of tapes, the quality of the physical videotape, and how much of it you have are all influencing factors when you develop a project budget. Find out what you need to know to price a video digitisation project.

It’s an unfortunate reality that not all audio tape digitisation projects result in a high-quality outcome. Here are some things to look out for as you quality check your newly digitised collection.

Audio digitisation gives your audio archive another chance at life. Make sure you know what factors play a role in determining the quality of your digitised audio archive before you embark on your next digitisation project.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation have recently embarked on a journey to digitise and preserve the precious history they hold on videotape.

Did you get to PARBICA in September? The conference title was ‘Footprints in Space and Time’. Alongside Mr Opeta Alefaio, the Director of the National Archives of Fiji, we presented the value of partnerships & collaboration. In this post I share the presentation as well as some other interesting take aways from the conference.

The digitisation of audiovisual content is challenging. It can require a greater investment of time and money than other format digitisation projects and this often restricts projects getting underway. Here are 6 considerations that may help you start to digitise your videotape, film or audio tape archive sooner rather than later.

After my previous post, tricks for recovering your oral history and sound collections from magnetic audio tape, I wanted to share an interesting experience from a couple of recent projects where we encountered an unusual form of degradation.

Outsourcing some or all videotape, audiotape and motion picture film digitisation will, in most cases, be the only viable solution for organisations wanting to save their content. In light of recent failings by Fairfax’s digitisation program, here are four points to think about when choosing a digitisation partner.

When making the commitment to digitise an audiovisual collection, you want to make sure your organisation is clear on the outcomes it wants to achieve - answering the why.

IASA has just released IASA-TC 05 which describes the main recording principles of sound and audiovisual carriers – mechanical, magnetic, and optical – their components, physical and chemical stability, and their vulnerability.

The Fijian National Archive recently visited DAMsmart with a film crew to document insights about the their legacy AV collection and the role we played in preserving it.

DAMsmart has recently completed a digitisation project for WIN Corporation and Crawford Productions PTY LTD, digitising iconic Australian Television series from the 60’s though to the 90’s.

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.

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.