For those of you interested in media preservation issues there will be a two day pre-conference workshop titled Media Preservation Boot Camp at the upcoming ARSC conference at Indiana University. Further information is available here:
http://www.arsc-audio.org/conference/pdf/workshop_flyer_2016.pdf
There will also be a series of presentations on large-scale media digitization including:
1. Planning for Large-Scale Media Digitization
Presenter: Evelyn Frangakis, New York Public Library
2. Implementing Large-Scale Media Digitization
Presenters: Mike Casey (IU), Andrew Dapuzzo (Memnon)
3. Completing Large-Scale Media Digitization Projects
Presenters: Kevin Bradley, National Library of Australia and Tom de Smet, Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision
4. National Collaborative Approaches to Large-Scale Media Digitization
Presenters: Will Prentice, British Library and Brecht Declercq, VIAA (Flemish National Archive)
5. Making it Happen: How To
Presenter: Chris Lacinak, AVPreserve
Finally, there will be tours of the IU Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative digitization facility on Thursday evening.
The conference website is here:
http://www.arsc-audio.org/conference.html
Mike
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Mike Casey
Director of Technical Operations
Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative
Indiana University
812-855-8090
https://mdpi.iu.edu/
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