Digitization for Everybody (Dig4E) - Video

Welcome to Dig4E-Video. We have designed this online course to help you learn about the present state of standards and best practices for creating archival-quality digital surrogates of analog video resources.

1: What is Videotape?

We learn about the history of analog video recording formats.

2: Video Standards Overview

We learn about the variety of standards and guidelines for digitizing analog videotapes.

3: Video Ethics

We learn about the ethics of technical decision making on the shape and preservability of digital reformatting.

4: Analog Video Formats

We consider the types of analog video signal formats.

5: Video Risk Assessment

We apply new tools for evaluating value and risk in video resources to assign digitization priorities.

6: Digitizing Video Essences

We learn about standards and best practices for digitizing the video and audio signals on videotape.

7: Contracting for Video Digitization

We learn about discussing digitization services with third-party vendors.

8: Video Facility Infrastructure

We learn about minimum requirements for in-house videotape equipment.

9: Time Codes & Captioning

We learn about the digitization challenges of complex time codes and textual information on videotapes.

10: Preservation Wrappers & Encoding

We learn about three target formats for encoding and wrapping digital files.

11: Digital Distribution Formats for Video

We learn about the digital file formats that facilitate online playback of digitized analog video.

12: Quality Control Workflow

We learn about approaches to ensuring the quality of the preservation master file.

13: Metadata About Video Files

We learn about standards for documenting the technical features of digitized video in external databases.

14: Future of Video Digitization

We learn about the aspirations of the standards community for long-term preservation and access.