A statement on “free” digitisation in archives.
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PRESERVATION & MIGRATION COMMISSION
Some of the Preservation and Migration Commission activities:
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Outsourced Migration Guide
The Preservation and Migration Commission propose the Outsourced Migration Guide as an assistance to any organisation planning to carry out a migration project and involve a third party to execute the actual migration work and possibly other tasks surrounding it, such as transport, reporting, quality control, etc. It is also helpful for any organisation looking to carry out a migration project on its own, as many of the organisational and technical aspects of such a project are identical whether the work is outsourced or not.
A statement on “free” digitisation in archives
Since late 2019, FIAT/IFTA has been informed that several European television archives – members and non-members of FIAT/IFTA – have received proposals to have certain video cassette formats from their archives digitised / migrated by a third party. It was emphasized that this digitisation would be free of charge.
Several members have asked the FIAT/IFTA Preservation and Migration Commission to advise on such proposal. Members of the Commission, each of them recognised global experts in the field of audiovisual digitisation, have studied a document in which a provider of such “free” digitisation sets out the technical proposal and its terms and conditions. Based on their conclusions, the Commission has developed an advice in response.
A short version of this advice can be found below. A longer version of it can be obtained upon simple request, contacting office@fiatifta.org.
COMMISSION CHAIR
Laurent Boch
PMC Chair
RAI
Responsible of Research Projects Administration
Etienne Marchand
PMC Co-Chair
INA
Multimedia Engineer
COMMISSION MEMBERS
Christoph Bauer
ORF
System-Administrator & Senior Project Manager
Miroslav Culjat
RTÉ
Manager, Archiving and Preservation
Marijn Daniels
VRT
Project Manager
Charles Fairall
BFI
Videotape & Engineering Advisor
Jörg Houpert
Cube-Tec
Head of Technology
Elizabeth Moreno Angulo
Head of video library department in Televisión Metropolitana
Canal 22, México
Peter Schallauer
Joanneum Research
R&D and Product Coordinator - Audiovisual Preservation Solutions
Sunny Tan
NLB
Assistant Director - Sound and Moving Image Lab
Richard Wright
Preservation Guide
Independent Consultant