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Reminder: The NDSA Standards and Practices Interest Group is now meeting on the SECOND Monday of each month at 1:00 Eastern time (Noon Central, 10 Pacific). Our next two meetings
will include presentations by two knowledgeable speakers; a great way to reconvene our monthly meetings!
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Meeting ID: 796 311 805
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March 9 - 1:00 Eastern time (Noon Central, 10 Pacific)
Standards for Digital Video
Presenter: 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.
Bio: 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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April 13 - 1:00 Eastern time (Noon Central, 10 Pacific)
DPC Rapid Assessment Model
In this presentation Jenny Mitcham will introduce the Digital Preservation Coalition’s Rapid Assessment Model (RAM), a maturity model for digital preservation that was launched
last September at iPRES 2019. Focused on continuous improvement, DPC RAM is designed to help any organization with a need to preserve digital content for the long term. It can be used to help you assess where you are and where you would like to be, and (best
of all) it may take as little as one hour to complete. This presentation will provide some background to DPC RAM, explain what it is, and how and why it came about. It will also cover how RAM can be used as a starting point to help your organization move forward
with digital preservation.
Bio: Jenny Mitcham is Head of Good Practice and Standards for the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), a membership organization based in the UK (but with an international
outlook). She has been working at the DPC for just over a year, and has been a digital archivist since 2003.
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NDSA Standards & Practices co-chairs:
Felicity Dykas –
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Linda Reynolds -
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