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I had the privilege to attend and present at this year’s International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) conference held at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. The title of this year’s conference was ‘A World of Opportunity: Audiovisual Archives and the Digital Landscape’. and I wanted to share some brief insights about my experience.

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.

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.

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.