As we discussed on the call today, I was trying to get a project off the ground for the AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists: http://www.amianet.org/) Preservation Committee (which I co-chair with Reto Kromer) to put together a survey to determine the various digital products produced by our members for specific purposes. This is based on a project I did for my day job at NARA to document the Products and Services produced by my division: http://www.archives.gov/preservation/products/. You'll notice that we link to standards and specifications where appropriate (such as here: http://www.archives.gov/preservation/products/products/aud-p1.html) but what I find most useful about this resource is the "rationale section" which details why we do what we do as well as the links to recent projects which use this product. We got as far as a template of likely data points (see below) but we didn't get it much further than that. The committee chairs have decided to shelve this idea for now because we couldn't get volunteers to help out. There may be something useful in the small bit of work we did accomplish. We had just planned to use Survey Monkey but I don't think our data had the projected complexity of the NDSA work. AMIA was going to host the results on its website. I also drafted a skeletal action plan but we didn't implement any of it. The action plan follows at the end of the email. This may be what Meg heard about in Estonia but that may be something else entirely. If this isn't it, I'd love to find out what project that was! Best from Kate Suggested Survey Points: Preservation Committee Digital Product Survey - DRAFT 1. Institution name: (required field) 2. Institution website: (required field) 3. Contact name: (required field) 4. Contact email or phone (required field) 5. Motion Picture Film 5.1. Does your institution reformat motion picture film to a file-based object? Yes/no (Required field. If no, can skip to video section) 5.2 Briefly describe your motion picture film holdings including number of reels/titles and formats. (If this information is available online, you can just provide a link) 5.3. What is the approximate file volume to date? 5.4. Preservation master specifications. (If this information is available online, you can just provide a link) 5.4.1. What file formats and codecs do you use for your preservation master or highest quality capture? What are the file attributes associated with these (such as bit rate, resolution, color sampling, profiles/levels, GOP structure, quantization rates, etc.)? 5.5. Digital Intermediate/Reproduction master specifications (If this information is available online, you can just provide a link) 5.5.1. What file formats and codecs do you use for your digital intermediate or reproduction master? What are the file attributes associated with these (such as bit rate, resolution, color sampling, profiles/levels, GOP structure, quantization rates, etc.)? 5.6. Distribution/Access copy specifications (If this information is available online, you can just provide a link) 5.6.1. What file formats and codecs do you use for your distribution or access copies? What are the file attributes associated with these (such as bit rate, resolution, color sampling, profiles/levels, GOP structure, quantization rates, etc.)? 6. What equipment do you use for the capture? (For example, 2K or 4K film scanner, production quality film scanner, etc) 7. How long have you been using these capture specifications? Have you experienced any problems? 8. Video 8.1. Does your institution reformat SD or HD video to a file-based object? Yes/no (Required feild. If no, can skip to Storage section) 8.2 Briefly describe your video holdings including number of titles and formats. (If this information is available online, you can just provide a link) 8.3. What is the approximate file volume to date? 8.4. Preservation master specifications (If this information is available online, you can just provide a link)(This field could repeat for SD and HD options) 8.4.1. What file formats and codecs do you use for your preservation master or highest quality capture? What are the file attributes associated with these (such as bit rate, resolution, color sampling, profiles/levels, GOP structure, quantization rates, etc.)? 8.5. Digital Intermediate/Reproduction master specifications (If this information is available online, you can just provide a link)(This field could repeat for SD and HD options) 8.5.1. What file formats and codecs do you use for your digital intermediate or reproduction master? What are the file attributes associated with these (such as bit rate, resolution, color sampling, profiles/levels, GOP structure, quantization rates, etc.)? 8.6. Distribution/Access copy specifications (If this information is available online, you can just provide a link)(This field could repeat for SD and HD options) 8.6.1. What file formats and codecs do you use for your distribution or access copies? What are the file attributes associated with these (such as bit rate, resolution, color sampling, profiles/levels, GOP structure, quantization rates, etc.)? 9. What equipment do you use for the capture? (For example, SAMMA system, stand alone video editing station and related software, etc) 10. How long have you been using these capture specifications? Have you experienced any problems? 11. Storage and File Management 11.1. Briefly describe your digital storage environment, such as local storage only, NAS/SAN, LTO, etc.(Required field) 11.2 Briefly describe your Digital Asset Management (DAM) system. If you do not currently use a DAM system, please note that in this field. (Required field) 12. Notes (Is there something we haven’t asked that you’d like to mention?): Action Plan (this is just copied from our AMIA PC Basecamp site) What do we think about using Survey Monkey to collect the data? The AMIA office has a license that we can use. I think we’ll be ok for the types of data we are looking to collect. We don’t have repeatable fields per se. I think we could structure the survey instrument to be mostly free text or drop downs. Survey Monkey will let you export into a variety of formats. Next steps for us: - Send out to PC for comments - Develop Survey Timeline - Develop communication plan including “Announcement” text to introduce this project to the people we want to fill this information in - Set up Survey Monkey instrument. Launch and monitor data collection - Compile final data into some sort of presentation form (nothing fancy I think * just a spreadsheet or something) - Work with AMIA office to get this information posted on AMAInet.net - Probably lots of other stuff I haven’t even considered yet. Obviously, the first things need to happen first. Any takers on specific tasks? ************** Kate Murray Digitization Process Development Specialist Digitization Services (IDS) National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) 301-837-2924 [log in to unmask] ############################ To unsubscribe from the NDSA-STANDARDS list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA-STANDARDS&A=1