AES New York 2015
Archiving and Restoration Track Event A1
Thursday, October 29, 10:15 am — 11:15 am (Room 1A14)
Archiving: A1 - The Media Digitization and Preservation Project at Indiana University: A Case Study in Large-Scale Preservation of Time-Based Media
Presenters:Andrew Dapuzzo, Memnon
Mark Hood, Indiana University - Bloomington, IN, USA
Konrad Strauss, Indiana University - Bloomington, IN, USA
Abstract:
Indiana University possesses an unusually rich collection of time-based media that document subjects of enduring value. They include wax cylinder sound recordings of Native American music, performances of world renowned musicians, lectures by the leading thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries, one of the largest collections of ethnographic field recordings, the film collections of Peter Bogdanovich and David Bradley, the collection of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex Gender and Reproduction, and many other unique and rare items. In 2010 a task force conducted an inventory of IU collections and identified an excess of 500,000 items that were in need of preservation. As a result, the university provided $15 million in funding to build a facility to digitize and preserve the collections; and make them available to researchers worldwide. This workshop will provide an overview of the survey process, the design of the preservation facility, and an overview of the digitization workflow. We will also discuss the lessons learned from building such a large project and how processes and methodology can be scaled down to work for the small library or archive.
