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Goals and Tasks

In all domains of culture and education an increasing amount of digital material and information is being generated, which is not just based on text but comprises elements like sound, graphics, videos, animations, simulations etc., frequently in combination with each other.

But the different institutions using digital material display a very inhomogeneous stage of development and state of knowledge on the topic. Libraries and institutions attached to the "Mediathek" network already possess functioning media-archives which are positive examples for the treatment of digital material. On the other hand, there are smaller institutions, like university institutes, wishing to use digital media – e. g. for the compilation of digital teaching material – but lacking the technical know-how and the means of implementation. Museums as well as collections also increasingly work on the basis of digital information and born-digital objects whose long-term preservation and accessibility have to be secured.

The nestor-work-group "media" is aspiring to become a centre of knowledge and expertise on best-practice approaches to the problem of long-term accessibility of digital, non-text based media. With the participation of renowned experts on the topic, a virtual meeting point will be established and a handbook on long-term archiving of non-text based media will be published with special consideration of problems regarding file formats, hardware for the creation of archival backup copies and workflow.

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Contact Persons

Working Group Members

Working Group Members

Schedule

Presentations

Work Results

nestor - ratgeber 1 - Nicht von Dauer : Kleiner Ratgeber für die Bewahrung digitaler Daten in Museen / Stefan Rohde-Enslin.

nestor - Materialien 2 - Digitalisierung und Erhalt von Digitalisaten in deutschen Museen / Dirk Witthaut. Unter Mitarbeit von Andrea Zierer, Arno Dettmers, Stefan Rohde-Enslin.

nestor - Materialien 5 - Perspektiven der Langzeitarchivierung multimedialer Objekte / Wolfgang Coy.

Links to related initiatives and projects

national

Digitalisierung fotografischer Sammlungen in deutschen Museen DiFoSa

international

TAPE - Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe

SEPIA - Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access

Memoriav - Preserving the audiovisual heritage

PEVIAR - Permanent Visual Archive

Imaging & Media Lab der Universität Basel

Minerva - MInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorisierung Activities in digitisation

Documents of related initiatives and projects

international

Technische Richtlinien für Programme zur Erstellung von digitalen Kulturinhalten

Document created by UKOLN, University of Bath in collaboration with MLA The Council for Museums, Libraries and Archives on behalf of Minerva-Project

Good Practice Handbook (Final Version 1.2) The handbook published by Minerva Working Group 6 gives an overview about digitisation, inter alia with recommendations for standards on av-media.

good practices handbook (Final Version 1.3) This is the abbreviated issue of the handbook 1.2.

further publications about digital preservation of multi-media objects you will find in the nestor-Subject Gateway