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Discovering Moving Images of Choreography

in the Archives: Dance Heritage Coalition’s

Dance Preservation & Digitization Project

Lauren SorensenPreservation Project Manager

Bay Area Video Coalition@laurensx

@BAVCPreserve

Bay Area Video Coalition

• Background on our organization• Social justice in technology and

art practice• Partnership with Dance Heritage

Coalition• Our role in the project

Risk factors for access to dance heritage related video in archives• Magnetic media obsolescence and

deterioration• Machines for digitization and playback

no longer manufactured• Experts estimate 10-15 year window to

digitize magnetic media • Quickly became a priority for DHC and

led to partnership with BAVC

At-risk analog video

Goals of the project• Regional digitization hubs• Digitization of obsolete formats• Accessible to diverse constituency

• Access point • Metadata / catalog records• Streaming video

• Digital preservation• Sustainable long-term

Preservation Access• Metadata and catalog records mapped

from individual institutions to PBCore• Tapes digitized by early-career

professionals via fellowship program• Sent to BAVC for ingest to preservation

& access repository server and off-site back-up

• Access files for streaming created and uploaded to cloud service

• Added to OPAC catalog record online at http://archive.danceheritage.org

Regional digitization hubs

• San Francisco: Museum of Performance & Design

• New York City: Dance Notation Bureau • Washington D.C.: Dance Heritage

Coalition offices• 2 forthcoming: NEA grant• Formats needing special treatment go to

BAVC fee-for-service digitization vendor

Access pointhttp://archive.danceheritage.org/

Storage system

Digital preservation of dance heritage

• Significant properties:• Lighting, movement, visual medium• Lead us to uncompressed and now

looking at a lossless format for preservation

• PBCore as metadata standard for access site• Preservation metadata is PREMIS

• Archivematica is our digital preservation system; follows OAIS framework

Your input is welcome!We want to hear from researchers about how to

make this resource better, more usable and sustainable.

laurens@bavc.orgkbell@danceheritage.org

lsmigel@danceheritage.orghttp://archive.danceheritage.org

http://bavc.org/dhcTwitter: @bavcpreserve