Extending Video Content Survival beyond 25 Years—When All Odds Seem Stacked against It

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE J
Volume: 108, No. 10, pp. 713–717
Abstract: Television programming worth producing is worth preserving, at least until the production investment has been recovered and fully exploited. Many teenaged tapes are orphaned when playback equipment support is discontinued and chemically challenged media no longer sustain them. It is feared that digital encoding dialects will no longer be understood, and decoding and re-encoding translators will be “out to lunch” when required. As with the human condition, the life of old folks is not extended by fresh air and fluffy pillows, but by a wholesome lifestyle long before they become aged. The stages of creation, use, and preservation of digital production elements are and must remain interdependent. This paper identifies some principles that enable programming content perpetuation.
Publication Date: 1999-10-01
DOI: 10.5594/J15658
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J15658
Author(s): E. H. ZwaneveldNational Film Board of Canada, Montreal, Que., Canada H4N 2J3
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E. H. Zwaneveld has directed Technical Research and Development at the National Film Board of Canada since 1982. He was responsible for 150 research and development projects that have advanced the state of technology, with increased efficiency and creative latitude, in film and television production, post-production, and distribution. As a member of the Canadian Task Force on the Preservation and Enhanced Use of Canada's Audio-Visual Heritage, (1994–95), he initiated work to modernize media asset preservation processes and develop appropriate practices for extended-term preservation, migration, and use of audio visual works on magnetic media. Zwaneveld has chaired SMPTE's Work Group V16.07 on Archival Storage Magnetic Media. He currently chairs the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Preservation Committee and is a member of the International Federation of Television Archives (IFTA) Project Group on “Future Television Archives” (P/FTA) and “Metadata.” Zwaneveld is technical advisor to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp./Societé Radio Canada (CBC/SRC) and WGBH Boston) on television archiving solutions. He has authored and published 60 technical and research papers in four languages. A Fellow of SMPTE, Zwaneveld received its Technicolor/Herbert T. Kalmus Gold Medal Award, and Samuel L. Warner Memorial Medal Award. He received a Technical Achievement Academy Award from AMPAS in 1998 and the Outstanding Achievement Award in Engineering Development from NATAS. Educated in The Netherlands, Zwaneveld holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is a member of the FKTG (Berlin), BKSTS (London), the IBC Council (London), and the EBU.
Copyright: © 1999 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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