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Please feel free to list questions for the initial digital video survey below. For example:


== Overall challenges ==
* What are your biggest challenges related to video?
* What is the big roadblock for preserving video? Why is it not part of the usual preservation environment?
* Do copyright issues influence your preservation priorities? If so, how?

== High-level Strategy / Resources / Funding ==
* How are your video preservation activities funded?
* Are you better equipped and resourced for video preservation, for video access, or are they resourced and equipped equally?
* How far back in chain of creation do you go with regular depositors of born digital video? Are you able to influence or define deliverables coming into your repository?
* Do you contract for consultation services to support your video efforts?
* Are you doing video reformatting in-house, through out-sourcing or a combination? If you are outsourcing some of this how did you decide which to outsource?
* Do you store your preservation master files in institutionally managed storage, through a commercial service, or both?
* Do you have the expertise you need for video preservation?

== Specifications / Standards / Modeling ==
* What are the technical specifications (formats, file characteristics, etc) you use? Especially for born digital video.
* Do you have guidelines for preferred/accepted digital video formats? Would you be able to share them?
* Are you storing any technical metadata for video and if so, in what form/schema?
* What types of auxiliary/associated materials files do you keep along with original files (e.g. production stills)?
* Are you trying to model higher level objects (1 program over 4 tapes, for example)? If so how?
* What about the raw material that comes in on one disc or drive (for example everything that went in to creating a documentary). What do you keep? How do you make the decision? Do you keep only the final version?
* Do you index any technical metadata and if so, which fields?

== Tools / Technology / Workflow ==
* Are you delivering the video you preserve, and if so using what tools/platforms/services?
* What analog-to-digital interface do you use (i.e., SAMMA, BlackMagic, Kona, AJA)? 
* What tools do you use in a preservation workflow?
* What compression engine do you use to create access derivatives (i.e., Front Porch, Nero MPEG-Streamclip, Apple Compressor)?
* What practices are you using with ingest processing for born digital video - normalize, keep original files, etc.?

== Survey Results ==
Question to ask the data:
* How many respondents are "haves" vs "have nots"?
* Of the haves, what are the top stumbling blocks?
* Of the have nots, what are the top stumbling blocks?