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Deluxe gets into clipping
Tech company buys MediaRecall, which catalogs video clips >>>
Deluxe Acquires MediaRecall
Deal Brings 2,000 Person Digital Video Workforce and Technologies >>>
Old-Fashioned Film Storage Still Trumps Digital
Digital storage has proven to be not only less safe but, surprisingly, far more expensive than preservation on film. >>>
Deluxe at age 90: Opening new facilities for new technologies >>>
More Discussion of Data Rot by David Pogue of the New York Times >>>
From CBS News: Keeping Up With Data Rot
As storage media and software applications advance or die out, years of precious memories are threatened. Sooner or later, “data rot” affects every audio recording, video recording and computer file. >>>
Federal Agencies Collaborate on Guidelines for Digitization
The Library of Congress is among a dozen federal agencies launching an initiative to establish a common set of guidelines for digitizing historical materials. "The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative" will address a variety of issues related to the complex activities involved in the digitization of cultural heritage items. The initiative includes a just-launched publicly accessible Web site, www.digitizationguidelines.gov
Under this initiative, two Working Groups have been established: The Still Image Working Group will address content that can be captured in still images, and will focus its efforts on books, manuscripts, maps, and photographic prints and negatives. The Audio-Visual Working Group will address standards and practices for sound, video, and motion picture film. >>>
Digital Promise Legislation Passed by Both Houses Of Congress
Digital Promise was passed by both the House and Senate as part of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. It is expected to be signed into law by President Bush within days, giving rise to a new Congressionally originated 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation located within the Department of Education. The new program is entitled the "National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies." >>>
NASA Launches Online Historical Image Gallery
NASA last week launched a new interactive Web site, jointly developed with the non-profit Internet Archive, which initially combines some 21 separately stored and managed NASA imagery collections into a single online resource featuring enhanced search, visual and metadata capabilities. >>>
Moviemakers Practice Filmanthropy
What is filmanthropy? It's helping kids from the Bronx, Los Angeles and the Dominican Republic land jobs in the movie industry. It's preserving and restoring films. It's showing classic movies to thousands of people living in Macedonian refugee camps. Here's how Caroline Baron, Vin Diesel, David O. Russell, Martin Scorsese and Jon Turteltaub practice filmanthropy. >>>
Mission Possible: Film Restoration
Spencer Kelly visits the Warner Bros archive in Los Angeles to meet the people painstakingly restoring old films using the latest technology. >>>
Flickr, Library of Congress Find Something in 'Common'
When the Library of Congress began looking for ways to publicize its historical photos collections last year, it found an unlikely partner in Flickr, which created a project called "The Commons" (flickr.com/commons), where the library - and now several other institutions - have posted their public photography archives. >>>
The Empty Frame: Reclaiming Georgian Cinema's Legacy
"Because our relations with Russia are not good," access can be a thorny issue, requiring deep pockets, as well as patience to negotiate the visa issues, paperwork, and contracts needed to duplicate meters and meters of fragile negatives, he elaborates. In many respects, adds the Film Center's Anna Dziashipa, who runs the film export division, the bureaucracy remains Soviet in all but name. "Everything depends on personal contacts and money." >>>
Svensk Library Going to Isis Theater
A Colorado judge has given Swedish Film giant Svensk Filmindustri 30 days to transfer the rights to its extensive film catalog -- which includes virtually all of the late director Ingmar Bergman's films -- to the Isis Theater in Aspen to satisfy an $8.9 million judgment. Svensk has until Aug. 22 to comply with the order. >>>
AMPAS Panel Notes Digital Dilemmas
"The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has weighed in on the problems of preserving existing digital content – and it's not a pretty picture.
In its long-awaited white paper on the biz's digital future, the Academy's Science and Technology Council describes an industry embracing digital filmmaking without any proven way to store digital information for the long term or retrieve it for later use."
The 74-page paper, titled "The Digital Dilemma: Strategic Issues in Archiving and Accessing Digital Motion Picture Materials," spotlights the risks of embracing digital without a long-term plan. >>>
Senate Committee Endorses American
Archive Project
The Senate Appropriations Committee has voted to endorse the American Archive,
an initiative spearheaded by the Association of Public Television Stations
(APTS) to digitally preserve public broadcasting's vast television and radio
libraries and make them available to the public. >>>
Noncoms to Push for Extended Copyright
Exemptions
The Association of Public Television Stations has created the Digital Rights
Coalition to lobby for broadening noncommercial stations' exemptions from copyright
law to reflect new delivery platforms. >>>
Our Cultural Commonwealth
Our Cultural Commonwealth: The final report of the American Council of
Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social
Sciences is a major study of how technical advances interact with our
culture. Learn more about grants, digital media research and resources, and
be sure to download the PDF report. >>>
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