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Planning the digitisation, storage and access of large scale audiovisual archives

Planning the digitisation, storage and access of large scale audiovisual archives
Planning the digitisation, storage and access of large scale audiovisual archives
This paper presents ongoing work in PrestoSpace on how broadcast archives can plan large-scale, long-term digitization and storage projects. In our approach, carrier decay, technical obsolescence, and rapidly falling costs of mass storage are represented as a series of statistical and predictive models. The models include ongoing migration within a digital archive. The objective is to allow archive managers to investigate the trade-offs between how many items to transfer, the cost of transfer and storage, how long it will take, what quality can be achieved, how much will be lost, and what digital storage solutions to adopt over time. The process and models are based on digitization projects conducted by large broadcast archives that are currently migrating their collections into digital form. Whilst our focus is on broadcast archives, our findings should be readily transferable to other scenarios where there is a need to store large volumes of digital data over long periods of time.
Addis, M. J.
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Choi, F.
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Miller, A.
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Addis, M. J.
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Choi, F.
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Miller, A.
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Addis, M. J., Choi, F. and Miller, A. (2005) Planning the digitisation, storage and access of large scale audiovisual archives. Ensuring Long-term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical data (PV 2005), The Royal Society, Edinburgh. 21 - 23 Nov 2005.

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This paper presents ongoing work in PrestoSpace on how broadcast archives can plan large-scale, long-term digitization and storage projects. In our approach, carrier decay, technical obsolescence, and rapidly falling costs of mass storage are represented as a series of statistical and predictive models. The models include ongoing migration within a digital archive. The objective is to allow archive managers to investigate the trade-offs between how many items to transfer, the cost of transfer and storage, how long it will take, what quality can be achieved, how much will be lost, and what digital storage solutions to adopt over time. The process and models are based on digitization projects conducted by large broadcast archives that are currently migrating their collections into digital form. Whilst our focus is on broadcast archives, our findings should be readily transferable to other scenarios where there is a need to store large volumes of digital data over long periods of time.

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Published date: 2005
Additional Information: Event Dates: 21-23 November 2005
Venue - Dates: Ensuring Long-term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical data (PV 2005), The Royal Society, Edinburgh, 2005-11-21 - 2005-11-23
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science, IT Innovation

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Local EPrints ID: 262231
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/262231
PURE UUID: 69424658-8537-4104-9b0b-8d4a700c4841

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Date deposited: 31 Mar 2006
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 07:07

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Author: M. J. Addis
Author: F. Choi
Author: A. Miller

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