Tuesdays, 6-10 PM,
room 651, Fall 2004
Instructors: Howard
Besser & Ann Harris
Introduction to Moving Image
Archiving
& Preservation H72.1800
see entire
syllabus
Assignments due before class:
- Orphans Assignment due
- Read:
- AMIA Preservation Committee, Video
Preservation Fact Sheets, 2003.
- Wheeler, Jim. Video
Preservation Handbook, 2002.
- Norris, Debbie Hess,
"Videotape Collections:
Establishing
Priorities for Preservation" in Playback: A Preservation Primer for
Video San Francisco: Bay Area Video Coalition (1998), p.60 - 69. On
reserve in Bobst Library.
- American Institute for Conservation of
Historic & Artistic
Works
(AIC)
"Caring for your
Videotape "
- Recommended
- Bachman, Rebecca,
Video Preservation:
Glossary of Terms, originally published in Playback: A
Preservation Primer for Video (1998), p.72-76.
- Council on
Library & Information
Resources (2004) The
State of Audio Collections in Academic Libraries
- Schoenherr,
Stephen, Recording
Technology History, Feb. 16, 2004.
Agenda:
- Orphans
presentations
- Sound
- Video
- What are some of the major issues with
video and
sound preservation?
- What are typical approaches to caring
for
and preserving
video and sound?
- What is the effect of digital formats
and
digitization
on media preservation?
- Knowing more about video/sound
artifacts,
what does
that tell you about risks to the material? What about its needs for
description
and care?
- Current Events:
- Video
Shows G.I.'s at Weapon Cache, NY Times, Oct 29, 2004
- Sony
BMG, Grokster Join Forces: In an unusual alliance, the record giant
will offer free and paid music via the file-sharing network, LA
Times, Oct 29, 2004
- Museums
share costs of new acquisition, SF Chronicle, Oct 26, 2004
- , NY Times, Nov 1,
2004