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AV Artifact Atlas:
Kristin MacDonough | Washington D.C. | SAA 2014 Research Forum
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Cultivating a Living Glossary for Audiovisual Errors
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AV Artifact Atlas:
Kristin MacDonough | Washington D.C. | SAA 2014#AVAAtlas
Cultivating a Living Glossary for Audiovisual Errors
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• Media preservation involves digitization. • Digitization can reveal or introduce signal imperfection. • Imperfections can be difficult to identify and describe. • Some imperfections can be fixed; others cannot.
The Need
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Media Preservation workers lack the information resources to support
Quality Control processes in digitization workflows.
Stanford University New York University
National Archives and Records Administration
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Quality Control Tools for Video Preservation
• Transfer tape recordings to digital file formats, meticulously making and documenting adjustments along the way
• Review, in-full, potentially corrupt files in search of problems
• Analyze and identify problems, determine their source
• Develop potential solutions, test them, and apply them to areas of degradation
The Need: Time!
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• AVAA integrated into QCTOOLS proposal• Funded by the NEH 2013-2014
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Contributors (2011-2014)
Michael Angeletti, Stanford Media Preservation LabJenny Mullins, Dartmouth CollegeMelitte Buchman, New York UniversityJean-Hugues Chenot, Institut National de l'AudiovisuelNathan Coy, Stanford Media Preservation LabRebecca Fraimow, Dance Heritage CoalitionHannah Frost, Stanford Media Preservation LabRichard L. Hess, Independent ContractorAgathe JarczykLudovic Jolivet, Dance Heritage CoalitionKristin Lipska, California Audiovisual Preservation ProjectEmily Perkins, Museum of Fine Arts - HoustonJoanna Phillips, Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumErik Piil, Anthology Film ArchivesJim Sam, Hoover Library and ArchivesC. Park Seward, The Transfer Lab at Video ParkGeoff Willard, Stanford Media Preservation Lab
..and growing!
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Continuing the Community Effort: Current and Upcoming
• Continue collecting artifact samples and enhancing descriptions(SMPL, Dance Heritage Coalition)
• Incorporate QC Tools software and graphs with AVAA• Develop the Resource Library with information about analog video, digitization, and
preservation• Create landing pages
• Enhance descriptions, category tags, still images, etc.• Develop Discussion Pages to help refine definitions and solutions
• Reach out to different user groups (archivists, librarians, conservators, subject experts, digitization specialists, teachers, students, etc.) for feedback on user experience
(content clarity, layout, features, searching, recommendations, etc.)
• 2014: Awarded Knight Foundation Prototype Fund to develop QC Capture, open-source a video digitization software
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