Digital Asset Management
Digital Video Archiving: The Evolving Reality of Any Content, Anywhere, Anytime [PDF] by Rino Petricola
The Internet2/CNI Performance Archive & Retrieval Working Group: Current Practices in Digital Asset Management [PDF]
Digital Files
Columbia University School of the Arts: Guide to Audio and Video File Formats and File Sizes [PDF]
Comparing Media Codecs for Video Content [PDF] by Jeremiah Golston
Graphics and Media Lab Video Group: Lossless Video Codecs Comparisons [PDF]
Snell & Wilcox’s Engineer’s Guide to Decoding and Encoding [PDF] by James Watkinson
Your Essential Guide To Digital: A Snell & Wilcox Guide [PDF] by John Watkinson
Snell & Wilcox’s Engineer’s Guide to Compression [PDF]
An Evaluation of Motion JPEG 2000 for Video Archiving [PDF] by Glenn Pearson and Michael Gill
Digital Video Preservation Reformatting Project: A Report [PDF] Prepared by Media Matters, LLC for the Dance Heritage Coalition
Motion JPEG2000 and Digital Cinema [PDF] by Siegfried Foessel
Snell & Wilcox’s MPEG Encoding Basics [PDF]
Digital Preservation
Arts and Humanities Data Service Preservation Handbook: Moving Image [PDF] by Gareth Knight & John McHugh
Digital Preservation Lifecycle Management: Building a Demonstration Prototype for the Preservation of Large-Scale Multi-Media Collections by Arcot Rajasekar / San Diego Supercomputer Center
Evaluating Preservation Strategies For Audio And Video Files [PDF] by Carl Rauch1, Franz Pavuza2, Stephan Strodl1, and Andreas Rauber
Preservation-Worthy Digital Video, or How to Drive Your Library into Chapter 11 [PDF] by Jerome P. McDonough
The Paradox of Digital Preservation [PDF] by Su-Shing Chen
The Universal Preservation Format: Background and Fundamentals [PDF] by Thom Shepard, Dave MacCarn
Digital Storage
Business Case Analysis: Implementation of LTO-2 Tape Drive Technology for a Large Business [PDF] by Abhinav Joshi and William J. Bender of Project Performance Corporation
Traditional Audiovisual Preservation
Audiovisual Archives: A Practical Reader Edited and Compiled by Helen P Harrison
Audiovisual Archiving: Philosophy and Principles by Ray Edmondson
Videotape Preservation Handbook [PDF] by Jim Wheeler
Videotape Reformatting
Digital Formats for Library of Congress Collections: Factors To Consider When Choosing Digital Formats [PDF] by Caroline R. Arms and Carl Fleischhauer
Wrapper/Container File Formats
XML Based Dictionaries For MXF/AAF Applications [PDF] by D. Beenham, P. Schmidt and G. Sylvester-Bradley
MXF: The Materials Exchange Format [PDF] by Bruce Devlin
Pinnacle Systems’ Material Exchange Format FAQ [PDF]
Pro MPEG Forum: Working Together with MXF [PDF]
AAF: An Industry-Driven Open Standard for Multimedia Authoring [PDF]
Advanced Authoring Format: An Executive Overview [PDF]
Enabling Better Media Workflows: An Overview of the Advanced Authoring Format [PDF] by the AAF Association