Related Resources
Planned documents
- Recorded Sound Digitization Overview and Guidelines. See Proposed Table of Contents (PDF 74KB)
- Video Recordings: Discussion of Digital Target Format Options
- Motion Picture Film: Discussion of Current Practices
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Meeting Notes
Meeting Notes | February 18, 2009
Audio-Visual Digitization Working Group
(PDF, 44KB)
Discussion of film scanning and DPX format; discussion with consultant of planning for three future activities: (i) documentation of specifications for MXF wrapping JPEG 2000 and uncompressed video, (ii) audio-file metadata embedding project, and (iii) testing audio digitization system performance; and discussion of audio production problem regarding integrity of files and writing to disk.
Meeting Notes | September 23, 2008
Audio-Visual Digitization Working Group
(PDF, 47KB)
Discussion of four proposed consultant tasks to plan future activities: (i) documenting specifications for MXF wrapping JPEG 2000 and uncompressed video, (ii) embedding metadata in audio files, (iii) testing audio digitization system performance, and (iv) convening a roundtable of video engineers to discuss practices for playback and digitization of videotapes.
Meeting Notes | August 1, 2008
Audio-Visual Digitization Working Group, Recorded Sound Subgroup
(PDF, 93KB)
Discussion of audio metadata categories, multi-track and multi-segment content, embedding selected metadata elements in digital files, "markers" in WAVE files.
Meeting Notes | April 21, 2008
Audio-Visual Digitization Working Group, Recorded Sound Subgroup
(PDF, 111KB)
Discussion of drafting guidelines and reference to earlier documents by others, audio decision lists and structural metadata, and evaluation of digitizing systems in terms of the IASA pass-fail recommendations.
Meeting Notes | April 8, 2008
Audio-Visual Digitization Working Group, Moving Image Subgroup
(PDF, 118KB)
General discussion of video and the introduction of the topic of profiles and applications specification, explorations of film reformatting with agreement that film-to-film transfer remains important in agency preservation work.
Meeting Notes | March 3, 2008
Audio-Visual Digitization Working Group
(PDF, 97KB)
Agreement about likely products from the work, formation of three sub-groups.
Meeting Notes | December 11, 2007
Audio-Visual Digitization Working Group
(PDF, 94KB)
Agreement that activity has value, table of contents for future guidelines discussed, agreement to continue series of meetings.
Last Updated: 03/06/2009