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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.
[email protected]@danceheritage.org
[email protected]://archive.danceheritage.org
http://bavc.org/dhcTwitter: @bavcpreserve