Sustainable Audiovisual Collections Through Collaboration

Dietrich Schller is director emeritus of the Phonogrammarchiv at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and is a specialist in audiovisual preservation and re-recording. Lars Gaustad directs the film preservation efforts at the National Library of Norway. Rachael Stoeltje is the director of the Indiana University (IU) Libraries Moving Image Archive and established the IU film collections into the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive. An award-winning creative director and designer for main titles in feature films and television, Vicki Shively is an Masters in Library Science candidate in digital libraries at Indiana University with a focus on moving image archives. George Boston spent his professional career as a sound technician and manager with the BBC, including their music studios in London, Audio Unit in Manchester, and the Open University Production Centre in Milton Keynes.

1. Introduction, Rachael Stoeltje 2. Let's Emulate the Sound of Colours! Reto Kromer 3. BFI Film Forever: Unlocking Film Heritage, Charles Fairall 4. New and Improved! Experiences from the Introduction of the National Library of Australia's Second Digital Collection Management System, Mark Piva 5. Changing Gears: Fast-Lane Design for Accelerated Innovation in Memory Organisations, Johan Oomen, Maarten Brinkerink, Bourke Huurnink 6. Organized Metadata Management System Using Auto-Generated Post-Production Scrip, Nobu Yamashita 7. Canalizing the Maelstrom of Metadata: Extensions on the Hourglass Model, Brecht Declercq 8. Using Film Annotation Tool as Part of the Restoration Process, Franz Hoeller 9. The Restoration of The Thousand-Stitch Belt (1937), Masaki Daibo, Tomohiro Hasegawa, and Kazuki Miura 10. Migration of Archived Video Footage: Challenges and Solutions for Hardware, Software, and Workflow Issues, Frank Pavuza 11. An Investigation into the Restoration of Wire Recordings in the 1950s, Nie Manying, Wang Xi, Zhang Shuxia, and Yan Jie 12. Findings from the Digitization of 78 RPM Discs, George Blood 13. Playback Methods for Phonogram Images on Paper, Patrick Feaster 14. Present and Future Applications of Optical Soundtrack Scan Technology, Gilles Barberis 15. Practical VisualAudio: A Long Journey to Tangible Results, Stefano S. Cavaglieri 16. Sound Reproduction of the First Speaking Films, Thierry Delannoy 17. Marginal Analysis of Digital Video Archives Restoration Project, Yang Haisheng and Jiang Huijun 18. Digital Video Damage in Archives: Detect, Repair and PreventResults from the DAVID Project, Peter Schallauer & Franz Hoeller 19. PREFORMA and the MediaConch Project: Open Source Tools for Open Standards, Erwin Verbruggen, Dave Rice, Bert Lemmens, Jrme Martinez, Ashley Blewer, Emanuel Lorrain, Antonella Fresa, and Claudio Prandoni 20. From Tape To File: Solutions For A Data-Centric Migration Workflow in The Haus Des Dokumentarfilms for the Magnetic Tape Collection of the Landesfilmsammlung Baden-Wrttemberg, Michelle Carlos 21. Transfer Quality-Controlled Archive Digitization Approaches for Large Tape-Based Repositorie, Jean-Christophe Kummer 22. Review and Comparison of FFV1 Versus Other Lossless Video Codecs for Long-Term Preservation, Peter Bubestinger-Steindl 23. Hierarchical Storage and Managing Media Assets for the Libraries of the Future, Kia Sang Hock and Adrian Chan 24. The Role of Optical Storage Technologies in Future Digital Archives, Morgan David and Yuji Sekiguchi 25. The (Carbon) Black Ops of Recording Tape Sticky Shed Syndrome Exposed, Charles Richardson and Martin Atias 26. Neutralization of Critical Stages in Nitrate Film Degradation, Alfonso Espinsoa and Cesar de la Rosa Araya 27. Fighting the Decay: Permanent Refreshment of Acetate Media, Nadja Wallaszkovits 28. The Sticking Point: Dealing with Blocked Motion Picture Films, Mick Newham 29. Biocontamination at the French Film Archives: A Study of its Origin and its Remediation, Betrand Lavdrine, Daniel Borenstein, Marie Dubail, Benoit Furdygiel, Chantal Garnier, Martine Gillet, Genevive Langlois, Thi-Phuong Nguyen, and Malalanirina S. Rakotonirainy