Here you can find more informational materials, tutorials, as well as other useful resources on basic video preservation. We will be updating this page as we discover new and better ways to streamline a/v archiving (it’s always a learning process!). All XFR Collective materials are free to use and distribute under a CC BY-ND license.
ZINES
GENERAL PRESERVATION RESOURCES
- Personal Archiving, Library of Congress
- Preservation at Home, Australia National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA)
- Preservation Self-Assessment Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Variable Media Questionnaire, A Forging the Future Project
- AVCompass, Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)
- Media Storage Quick Reference, Image Permanence Institute (IPI)
- Video Archiving, WITNESS
- The Patch Bay
- XFR Identification Guide
VIDEO
- Texas Commission on the Arts Videotape Identification and Assessment Guide
- Audiovisual Format Identification Guide, California Audiovisual Preservation Project
- Audiovisual Media Cheatsheet, The Preservation Self-Assessment Program (PSAP)
- AV Artifact Atlas
- AMIA Video Preservation Fact Sheet
- Video Preservation Website
- The Cable Bible
AUDIO
- The Field Audio Collection Evaluation Tool (FACET), Indiana University, 2008
- International Organization of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
- Preserve This Podcast Zine
FILM
- Home Film Preservation Guide, Film Forever
- Film Identification, Australia National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA)
- National Film Preservation Foundation: Film Preservation Guide
DIGITAL MEDIA
- A Primer on Codecs for Moving Image and Sound Archives
- Digital Media Backblaze, Hard Drive Stats for 2018
- Format Descriptions for Moving Images
- Digital Video Preservation and Oral History
- ffmprovisr
WORKFLOWS
- XFR Collective workflow
- Minimum Viable Workstation
- Minimum Viable Workstation Recipes
- AMIA open source committee, open-workflows (contains various links to institutional workflows)
- Digitization & Migration workflows for use with METRO’s A/V rack
COMMUNITY BASED ARCHIVING ORGANIZATIONS
- Audiovisual Preservation Exchange (APEX)
- Community Archiving Workshop
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive
- Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound
- Interference Archive
- Indigitization
- V tape
- South Side Home Movie Project
- Center for Home Movies
- Great Migration Home Movie Project
- Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)
Gonna try to figure out filter