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Award winning services making AV content accessible today and preserving it for tomorrow. Digitising videotape, film and audio collections and archives.

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

Congratulations to the @SBS team on winning the @FIAT_IFTA award for Excellence in Media Preservation. Well deserved recognition for a great project. And something we were proud to be a part of.

[Jan Müller @JanMullerRPO]

The winner of the #FIATIFTA2018 award for Excellence in Media Preservation is @SBS Australia 🇦🇺 for their Videotape Digitisation Project in collaboration with @DAMsmart_ Congratulations!!!

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

We have kicked off a project with @Telstra to #digitise and save the @AFL historical #AV collection.

https://t.co/GUux3o4fZb

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

https://t.co/o67kt0Gp1g

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

Have you got a film collection in your archive? You might interested in this video from MoMA.

How does MoMA preserve films?

https://t.co/TAeKTNz8KK

#film #preservation

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

Cataloguing what's in your content after you digitise your videotape archive can be time consuming and expensive. Perhaps it won't be long before AI can help with that task.

Reuters uses AI to extract data from 1 million archive videos

https://t.co/1DCOR3LnSN

#av #preservation

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

Who said videotapes aren't worth anything?

Video tapes of ‘lost’ Top Of The Pops performances going under the hammer

https://t.co/Ce1LpGtEs0

#avpreservation

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

We are told that archival footage holds not only cultural significance but potentially commercial value too. This Guardian article illustrates this listing examples of archival content that's been used to create new productions.

https://t.co/uTiDKGvDwt

#av #preservation

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

Rotting Sounds is an interesting project out of Vienna. "our project of artistic research investigates the causes, processes and ramifications of degradation and technological obsolescence within the domain of digital audio"

https://t.co/ciPn4Fvreq

#av #preservation

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

Is your videotape and audio tape collection ready for the future?

'There's no way we can save it all': National Archives says audio-visual records will be lost

https://t.co/CUkfJzpTMU

#av #preservation

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

It's always interesting to read about other people's experiences with film preservation to see if there is something new to learn. This is an interesting piece from the Niels Bohr Library & Archives.

https://t.co/gXo47z1hQ9

#av #preservation #archives

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

Have you got a film collection? Do you know what vinegar syndrome is? If you don't, you should learn about it and make sure your #film is not failing without your knowledge.

Film Preservation 101: Why does this film smell like vinegar?

https://t.co/LowT1wU8d8

#preservation

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

Do you know the difference between digitisation and digitalsation? Either way, to take advantage of emerging tech you need your AV to be digital.

AI Runs Into The Document And People Barrier: Digitization And Digitalization

https://t.co/GMYXqGaYwL

#av #preservation

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

Copyright can be a challenging consideration when you are digitising archival media. The Internet Archive know that better than most.

The Endangered Internet Archive Is Full of Treasures

https://t.co/KIzFIdUJ67

#av #preservation

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

Good JTS 2019 summary from Swee at SLQ in @AICCM_OZ newsletter. TC06 is definitely a great resource to learn the right way to preserve video. Andrew @audiovisualopen is a lead contributor to TC06 & our ops manager. Get in touch if you want to learn more.

https://t.co/ix4fHOtvQT

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

New Zealand is working hard to save its AV heritage, pointing to 2025 as the deadline.

We are half way through 2020. That doesn't leave a lot of time.

Is your AV content digitised, preserved and accessible?

https://t.co/Snubnmtuga

#avpreservation

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

It is international archives week this week. Here is David Fricker’s opening statement: “Empowering Knowledge Societies”.

https://t.co/KM7TiSxRIr

#av #archives

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

Is your film archive safe from vinegar syndrome?

Historical films may be decaying much faster than we thought thanks to 'vinegar syndrome'.

https://t.co/aGVCKWNpf7

#avpreservation #film #archive

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

Restored Film Reveals Last Known Footage Of A Tasmanian Tiger.

AV archives hold so much wonderful information that can help us tell so many unique stories about the past. Don't let them go extinct.

https://t.co/6Fkrpp1r8O

#avpreservation #film

[Patricio Cofre @pcofre]

San Francisco,CA 1906. Beautiful example of video restoration, based on #DNN hallucinations. This #AI imagined details that potentially never existed, to fill in missing pieces in space (upscaling to 4K), time (interpolating to 60fps) & color. Author link: https://t.co/ZS4QpxqlmG

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

Our AV archives can add real value to our community. It will be a shame if they are lost #deadline2025.

https://t.co/dzXO6GeEzl

#av #preservation

[DAMsmart @DAMsmart_]

@erwinverb @CaseyEDavis1 Thanks for the referral @erwinverb