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

Revision as of 10:48, 19 March 2014

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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?

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.?