NDSA,

 

The first Standards and Practices meeting of 2020 will be on March 9 at 12:00 (noon) Central time. We will not have a February meeting.

 

At our March meeting we will hear from Jimi Jones, a recent doctoral graduate from the iSchool at the University of Illinois, who will share his research on standards for digital video.

 

Abstract: This dissertation focuses on standards for digital video - the social aspects of their design and the sociotechnical forces that drive their development and adoption. This work is a history and analysis of how the MXF, JPEG 2000, FFV1 and Matroska standards have been adopted and/or adapted by libraries and archives of different sizes. Well-funded institutions often have the resources to develop tailor-made specifications for the digitization of their analog video objects. Digital video standards and specifications of this kind are often derived from the needs of the cinema production and television broadcast realms in the United States and may be unsuitable for smaller memory institutions that are resource-poor and/or lack staff with the knowledge to implement these technologies. This research seeks to provide insight into how moving image preservation professionals work with - and sometimes against - broadcast and film production industries in order to produce and/or implement standards governing video formats and encodings. This dissertation describes the transition of four digital video standards from niches to widespread use in libraries and archives. It also examines the effects these standards produce on cultural heritage video preservation by interviewing people who implement the standards as well as people who develop them.

 

Speaker:

Dr Jimi Jones is the archivist for the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on standards for moving image digitization and the decision-making processes of large and small cultural heritage repositories when picking an encoding/container combination for digitizing legacy video materials. He has taught an audiovisual preservation course for the School of Information Sciences for the past ten years as instructor of record. Jimi was Digital Audiovisual Formats Specialist for the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress for nearly three years, where he co-chaired the Standards Working Group of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) and the Audiovisual Working Group of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI). Jimi was also a principal editor of the Library’s Sustainability of Digital Formats website. He received his PhD and MS/LIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019 and 2007, respectively. He also received his bachelor's degree in Film Production at the University of Utah in 2003.

 

Dissertation: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/105621

 

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