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Compile tapes present challenges when considering how to handle the segments when they are digitised. Here's one way to overcome that challenge.

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.

Rather than an all or nothing approach to AV digitisation, consider tackling your project in chunks based on priority. However, working out a priorities can be challenging. These are 3 factors that could help you prioritise your video collection for digitisation.

Video media is not getting any younger, so the question is what do I need to worry about the most - technology obsolescence or failing media?

We're exhibiting at the Australian Sportscasting Conference & Expo in Melbourne on stand A-4. Find out about accessing all the valuable content you hold on videotape.

It’s a big project that will see us digitise 21,000 hours of content across as many as 40,000 individual Betacam cassettes.

Visit us at VALA2014, you will find us on Booth 59.

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.

The combination of LTO data tape and the LTFS file structure can deliver great benefits for the audiovisual archive community. I examine why.

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.

Video archivists are required to be some of the most diverse users of tools and resources available today out of all video based professions and rich media archives.

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.

No entity, large or small is immune from the issue of losing content on magnetic media or film.

We put together a short film to highlight the services we offer at DAMsmart when we travelled up to Broadcast Asia.

The Symposium program covers sessions titled Iconic Spaces, Iconic People and Iconic Events and features a range of speakers.

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.

I recently spent a week with the MWA Nova team in Berlin on a product training program.

Joe will be presenting at the 2011 SEAPAVAA conference being held in KL, Malaysia starting on June 6. The presentation considers questions surrounding outsourcing preservation and digitisation projects.