Wrapping Up: Evolving Practices in AV Archiving

This is the presentation given by Jeff Ubois as part of the concluding sessions held at Screening the Future 2011.

As outlined in this presentation, ensuring long-term access to AV material requires solving technical, economic, legal, and institutional problems simultaneously. New patterns of AV production will both allow and force the evolution of of our collections, and allow for greater public engagement. All this will require experimentation, and sharing the results. Sharing technical approaches more systematically will allow AV archives to reduce their costs, compress engineering schedules, and engage more effectively with vendors. With public support for digital preservation of cultural heritage becoming increasingly uncertain, there is a need for new approaches to funding. Some of these new approaches are truly innovative; others are unproven but promising; a few have been discredited. The models that work vary widely from country to country, and between different domains; some concepts (like partnerships) can be implemented in very different ways. Documenting new technical, economic, and administrative approaches will be the work of PrestoCentre, which is building its operations around the needs and practices of the European audiovisual preservation community.

See the video registration of Jeff Ubois' presentation, here.