As distributed across the internet wires via the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Outreach Committee "The ARSC Preservation Grants Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of the Grants for Preservation of Classical Music Historical Recordings. The program for these grants was founded in 2004 by Al Schlachtmeyer and the ARSC Board of Directors, to encourage and support the... read more
With Preservation Week on its second day, are you curious how colleagues in the U.S. are spending their time? If you didn’t know, Preservation Week got started in 2010, because, as the ALA Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) site says “630 million items in collecting institutions require immediate attention and care. Eighty percent of these institutions have no... read more
If you happen to be in London between now and the 10th of June, check out the ICA's (Institute of Contemporary Arts) Remote Control exhibition. “Remote Control surveys the enormous impact that television has had upon contemporary culture through a range of artistic engagement with the medium and offers a look at how the next generation are responding to digital convergence. The exhibition... read more
Personal archiving is becoming an increasingly hot topic as much of the traces and documents of our existence are being born digital - from text documents to banks statements, photographs, videos and a whole plethora of other stuff. If you’re looking for some info on how to get started with your own personal digital archiving project - taking care that your much beloved music collection or... read more
As posted on the Wikimedia Blog "The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the national public broadcaster, turns 80 this year. To celebrate it has launched a new website called “80 Days That Changed Our Lives“, giving 80 pieces of audio visual content from the ABC archives a new lease on life. Today, the ABC has also announced that it has gone a step further by releasing some of these... read more
Coming up this May is the 2nd edition of Screening the Future. Inspired by last year's conference we're pleased to announce Screening the Future 2012: Play, Pause and Press Forward. With the ongoing developments in the ways audiovisual media are produced, played, and accessed, Screening the Future takes a moment to look at new technologies, infrastructures, strategies and models to preserve... read more
Today marks the 2012 European Cloud Computing Conference, with representatives from the EU Commission and Parliament, as well as business and technology representatives debating the possible future(s) of a unified EU cloud ecosystem. With AV productions increasingly being made in the cloud, and cloud storage and retrieval systems for AV digital preservation becoming more and more a part of the... read more
Yesterday, Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC revealed that the rumoured pay-to-own download service of the BBC is in fact true, with the unveiling of Project Barcelona. While not official as the project still needs to win over the hearts and minds of the BBC Trust and programme producers, and price points have not been ironed out (although most rumours have speculated a £1.89/show... read more
FOCAL International, the Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries in association with AP Archive, announced yesterday the shortlisted nominees for their ninth annual awards “celebrating the use of footage archive images in the creative media.” “‘We’ve had a wonderful response for this year’s awards, with more than 180 submissions from 18 countries; from Lebanon, Martinique and Thailand... read more
As distributed by EUScreen - Hilversum, 08/03/2012 Today, the EUscreen project releases the first peer-reviewed, multi-media and open access e-journal in the field of European television history and culture. The aim of this e-journal is to provide an international platform for outstanding research and reflection on television as an important part of our European cultural heritage. The Journal... read more
2012 Preservation Grant Awards from the ARSC Announced
As distributed across the internet wires via the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Outreach Committee "The ARSC Preservation Grants Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of the Grants for Preservation of Classical Music Historical Recordings. The program for these grants was founded in 2004 by Al Schlachtmeyer and the ARSC Board of Directors, to encourage and support the... read more