THE PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL TELEVISION: Challenges, Requirements, and Strategies Kara Van Malssen New York University [email protected]LA PRESERVACION DE LA TELEVISION DIGITAL: Retos, Requerimientos, y Estrategias Seminario de Conservación de Obras y Documentos Sobre Soprotes Electrónicos Ciudad de México, 31 de julio 2009
Talk given at the Seminario de Conservación de Obras y Documentos Sobre Soportes Electronicós in at the Centro Nacional de las Artes. More information about the program is available from the Centro Multimedia website, here: http://cmm.cenart.gob.mx/seminario09/index.html
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LA PRESERVACION DE LA TELEVISION DIGITAL: Retos, Requerimientos, y EstrategiasSeminario de Conservación de Obras y Documentos Sobre Soprotes Electrónicos
Digital MediaNot tangibleEven more dependenciesMore frequent obsolescence of various componentsPlayback requirements not obviousMore content than ever before
Preservation of physical media...Primarily required good storage and disaster protection
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1. Bit PreservationSustaining the 0s and 1s, or ensuring that the video, audio, and ancillary files remain intact over time with no loss or corruption of bits
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2. Accessibility and Usability of ContentEnsuring that video, audio, and ancillary files can be found, retrieved, interpreted, played back, and delivered to the appropriate users.
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Preservation Version / MasterAccess Versions / Derivatives
Support current and future uses by
preserving the highest quality version to allow for many derivatives
2. Accessibility and Usability of Content
Proprietary or open source?Dependent on specific hardware and/or software?High market saturation?Good documentation / support community?
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Create files using open, standardized, non-proprietary file formats and codecs, high resolution or uncompressed, and avoid transcoding during production