Toward a Universal Data Format for the Preservation of Media

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE J
Volume: 106, No. 7, pp. 477–479
Abstract: There is a significant need for a Universal Preservation Format (UPF), designed specifically for digital technologies, that can store compound content (not only media itself hut also information about it) so that the content can be accessed easily both today and into the indefinite future. The UPF could break the bond between the recording format and the machine through which the format is accessed. This paper points out some existing technology that could be used, and is intended to provide a basis for industry discussion toward producing a universal preservation format.
Publication Date: 1997-07-01
DOI: 10.5594/J15748
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J15748
Author(s): Dave MacCarnWGBH Educational Foundation. Boston, MA 02134
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David MacCarn is chief technologist for the WGBH Educational Foundation. He is currently responsible for long-term planning, investment, and adoption of new technologies for use in production, post-production, interactive system, and accessible media, as well as business systems. Under his direction from 1985 to 1993, the WGBH engineering facilities underwent major technical renovations, including a wide-bandwidth routing system, computer networking, and the adoption of digitized video nonlinear editing. He made WGBH one of the first stations to go stereo, including SAP, and was instrumental in bringing the descriptive video service to the public. In 1988, WGBH received the Armstrong Award for Technical Achievement because of his use of PCM pseudo video to broadcast digital audio directly to the listener. MacCarn was Chairman of the Data Analysis Subcommittee, System Subcommittee-System Standards (WP4), and FCC Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service. He is currently a member of the PBS Engineering Committee and a PBS representative to the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC). MacCarn has been in the television industry since 1976 when he joined KETC, the public television station in St. Louis, Mo.; there he rose to the position of chief engineer. While with Emerson Electric's Aerospace Division from 1980 to 1982, he designed and developed dedicated microcomputers for the interactive videodisc using Touch Panel technology. MacCarn received a B.S. degree in computer science in 1983 from the University of Missouri, St. Louis, where he held the honor of University Scholar. He did graduate work in computer architecture at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1984. He is a member of the SMPTE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Copyright: © 1997 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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8. The WGBH Educational Foundations work toward the creation of a recommended practice is being partially supported by a grant (97–029) from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission of the National Archives. EXTERNAL
9. To follow the progress of the Universal Preservation Format, a web site has been established at [ http://info.wgbh.org/UPF ]. EXTERNAL

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