by Richard Wright

A particular issue in audiovisual preservation is institutions which have little audiovisual technical expertise. How can non-specialists get the information and the services – and the budgets – they need to preserve this material and make it accessible? This presentation will give the essential information, and a basic approach for preservation planning. As the subject is far larger than one speaker or even a one-week course can cover, the presentation will also review sources of support, information and further training.

the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
by Dietrich Schueller

IASA-TC 03: The safeguarding of the Audio Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy. Ed. by Dietrich Schüller. Version 3, December 2005
This document is not a Code of Ethics for all aspects of sound archiving. It covers, however, the ethical consequences resulting from the technical aspects of recording, preserving and accessing sound documents within the framework of the technical development offered by today’s market situation. The document is meanwhile available in seven languages.

The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
by Dietrich Schueller

IASA-TC 04: Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects. Ed. by Kevin Bradley. 2nd Edition, 2009
The Guidelines address the production of digital copies from analogue originals for the purposes of preservation, the transfer of digital originals to storage systems, as well as the organisation of digital repositories for long-term storage. Presentation of TC 04 will concentrate on the extraction of contents from analogue and digital original carriers, an often underrated process in digitisation projects.

by Gabriele Blome

In contrast to traditional forms of art, media art works often have special properties which cause new challenges for their documentation and preservation – as e.g. processuality, interactivity, collaboration, connectivity, context-specifity. With respect to the archive of the Ars Electronica the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media. Art. Research developed a description model that connects the requirements of media art documentation with the needs of the description and archiving of institutional activities. This model is transferred into an ontology and becomes part of a generic framework for media art archives, that is being implemented in cooperation with Basis Wien and SNML. The lecture presents the model and discusses the use of ontologies in the context of the documentation of media art.