Video and videotape readings

Here's a bunch of readings and websites (not all of which I'm reading for next week) that I found last night. Most from Stanford's Palimpest site:

http://www.video-id.com/

http://users.tkk.fi/~iisakkil/videoformats.html

Besser, Howard (1994). Fast Forward: The Future of Moving Image Collections , in Gary Handman (ed.), Video Collection Management and Development: A Multi-Type Library Perspective, Westport, CT: Greenwood, p. 411-426.

Roosa, Mark, "Videotape Analysis and Evaluation" and Adelstein, Peter, "Videotape Storage" in Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video (1998), p.5-17.

Brooks, Connie, "Videotape Preservation: Ethical Considerations", Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video, p. 18-24.

AMIA Preservation Committee, Video Preservation Fact Sheets, 2003. (http://www.amianet.org/publication/resources/guidelines/videofacts/intro.html )

Wheeler, Jim. Video Preservation Handbook, 2002. (http://www.amianet.org/publication/resources/guidelines/WheelerVideo.pdf)

http://www.bavc.org/preservation/dvd/resources/gloss.htm

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/videos.html

Videotape Preservation Fact Sheets (http://www.amianet.org/publication/resources/guidelines/videofacts/about.html )

This resource, prepared by the Preservation Committee of The Association of Moving Image Archivists, offers guidance to custodians of archival video collections of any size. The coverage of topics aims to be comprehensive and the discussion uses non-technical language to focus on the fundamental issues concerning the long-term care and handling of videotape.

Bay Area Video Coalition

Abstracts, slide presentations, and transcripts from playback 1996, a conference on video preservation, held in San Francisco March 29-30, 1996 and hosted by BAVC, the nation's first independent, non-commercial video preservation facility.

See also: PLAYBACK: Preserving Analog Video, "an interactive DVD [produced and for sale by BAVC] that invites users to view the technical practices of video preservation and to experience the complex decision-making process artists, conservators and video engineers engage in when the reconstruction of video artwork occurs."

Experimental Television Center, Ltd.'s Video History Project

"An on-going research initiative which documents video art and community television, as it evolved in rural and urban New York State, and across the US." Includes a useful section on " Video Preservation - The Basics."

Jim Lindner

Confessions of a Videotape Restorer, or how come these tapes all need to be cleaned differently?

Digitization Reconsidered

The Proper Care and Feeding of Videotape

Magnetic Tape Deterioration: Tidal Wave at Our Shores

Videotape Restoration--Where Do I Start?

Library of Congress
Television/Videotape Study

Jim Wheeler
The Do's and Don'ts of Videotape Care
Videotape Preservation

VidiPax

Informative site from a vendor that provides magnetic media duplication, restoration, digitization, and consulting services. Includes images of historic a-v equipment and a list of resources

Canadian Conservation Institute
How to Care for Video Tapes

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Standards, such as ISO 18923:2000 titled "Imaging materials -- Polyester-base magnetic tape -- Storage practices", are available for purchase.

See also: Standards relating to telecommunications, audio and video engineering

Library of Congress

Specifications for Plastic Containers for Long-term Storage of Motion Picture Film and Magnetic Tape Media

ScreenSound Australia
How to Care for Your Video

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
Standards and Recommended Practices in Print

Including SMPTE RP 103-1982 (Reaffirmed 1987), Care and Handling of Video Magnetic Recording Tape.

Jim Feeley
"Tape Formats Compared: How do DV formats measure up with Betacam SP and 601?" In Digital Video Magazine May 1999.

Steven Davidson and Gregory Lukow
The Administration of Television Newsfilm and Videotape Collections: A Curatorial Manual. Los Angeles and Miami: American Film Institute and the Louis Wolfson II Media History Center. 1997. Covers the range of archival issues, including several chapters on preservation.

Barbara L. Grabowski
Interactive Videodisc: An Emerging Technology for Educators. ERIC Digest. 1989.

Erich Kesse
Archival Copies of Video Tapes. University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries policies and procedures.

Kodak

Shelf Lives and Videotape (excerpt from an article in Fortune magazine, Oct. 18, 1993)

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0010/001096/109612eo.pdf

Pip Laurenson

" The Conservation and Documentation of Video Art" [pdf] In Modern Art: Who Cares? (Amsterdam: International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art): 263-271. 1999. From a symposium organized by INCCA on the unique preservation and conservation challenges posed by installation art and other contemporary art forms. Other papers from the symposium are available from INCCA's Web site.



Library of Congress Preservation Directorate

Research and Testing Publications.
Provides a listing of printed reports which are available at no charge to the public upon request. Several address audiovisual materials specifically, including the most recent report issued in February 2002, "Bibliography on the Preservation of Magnetic Media" by Gerald D. Gibson.

Jerry Rodgers

"Preservation and Conservation of Video Tape." In Care of Photographic, Moving Image and Sound Collections: Conference Papers, York, England, July 20-24, 1998, edited by Susie Clark (Worcestershire: Insitute of Paper Conservation): 6-10. 1999.

Steve Seid

"TechArcheology2000." In MAIN (Newsletter of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture), Winter 2000.

"The Terrible Tenets of Video Preservation"

VidiPax

"Recovery of Mold Damaged Magnetic Tape at Vidipax: A Procedure Sheet." In Mold Reporter vol. 1, no.6. 2001.

ACVL Manual(Association of Cinema and Video Laboratories)
http://www.acvl.org/manual.htm

Richard Wright

"Broadcast Archives: Preserving the Future." [pdf] Describes the results of a survey of holdings within ten major European public service broadcasting archives and their preservation needs.

Rebecca Bachman

Video Preservation: Glossary of Terms , handout from playback 1996 a conference on preservation of video, held in San Francisco March 29-30, 1996.



Kodak

Glossary of Film / Video Terms



Sarah Stauderman
Video Format Identification Guide (Video-id.com)

An invaluable tool, complete with color photographs, format obsolescence ratings, and a glossary of terms. Created with the assistance of the American Institute for Conservation's Electronic Media Group and Jim Lindner/VidiPax.

ScreenSound Australia
Technical Glossary of Common Audiovisual Terms

The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials (242 pages!!!) (PDF)

While chapter seven specifically addresses Audio/Video Capture and Management, other sections of this guide provide information relevant to digital video and preservation, such as the appendices on equipment, metadata, digital data capture by sampling and a very extensive bibliography. Produced by the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). 2002.

Jerome McDonough

Preservation-Worthy Digital Video; or, How to Drive your Library into Chapter 11 [PDF] Paper presented at the AIC Electronic Media Group 2004 meeting in Portland, Oregon.

Judith Thomas

"Digital Video, the Final Frontier ." In Library Journal netConnect. January 2004.

Howard D. Wactlar and Michael G. Christel

"Digital Video Archives: Managing Through Metadata." In Building a National Strategy for Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources. 2002.

Dance Heritage Coalition's Digital Video Preservation Reformatting Project

Project Description
Press Release

Managing Digital Video Content

Documents from a two-day workshop on current and emerging standards for managing digital video content. 2001.

The Open Video Project

SMPTE Metadata Dictionary and Related Items

Universal Preservation Format

An effort initiated by WGBH-TV staff

ViDe

"Five institutions . . . established the Video Development Initiative (ViDe) in 1998 to identify and prioritize digital video development issues." Offers access to resources on video, especially metadata, and includes a publication titled, " Digital Video for the Next Millenium", which "provides an overview of digital video on demand -- the underlying technology, the client/server capabilities currently available and development areas for the near future."

Formats and Standards
AAF Association

Advanced Authoring Format
Bruce Devlin

MXF -- the Material eXchange Format [pdf]

Diffuse

Video Interchange Standards (NOTE: This URL points to the Diffuse site preserved by the Internet Archive in June 2003.)

MPEG

Adam Wilt

DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO Formats