Television Archiving

Documents of Library in Boston to Go on Web – New York Times (tags: digitization)

History Archives: Online. | MetaFilter Start of a set of links to historical resources. (tags: archives) 10 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube | MetaFilter Academics and others… (tags: education google video youtube) NARA and the VP J.William Leonard, the head of the National Archives’ Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) describes policy changes… (tags: NARA [...]

Digital Fear-Mongering And Hollywood Accounting A rebuttal to the NY Times piece on the cost of digital preservation in Hollywod. (tags: film preservation)

The Afterlife Is Expensive for Digital Movies – New York Times (tags: digitization preservation film)

RIAA writes its own “news” for local TV stations VNRs aren’t news, but it would be good to see if the stations are following the guidelines issued by RTNDA about them…also, it would be good to see QuestionCopyright’s Media Confusion project get funded. (tags: VNR copyright riaa)

MPAA censors torture documentary, gleefully approves of fake torture – Boing Boing Trent Reznor on Year Zero, Planting Clues, and What’s Ludicrous About Being a Musician Today A musician who has moved past shock, denial, anger, bargaining and into acceptance…good stuff here. (tags: culture copyright music)

The 2007 Horizon Report Educause and the New Media Consortium report on Web2 and education.

Alpha Geek: How to digitize cassette tapes (tags: digitization)

Copyright Clearance Center Launches Copyright Labs – Copyright.com (tags: copyright services) Google Wants To Index Your Videos (tags: video google search)

8 Principles of Open Government Data This is a useful set of conclusions and guidelines. Libraries considering digitization agreements should insist that scans (eventually) conform to these principles. (tags: digitization)

Ask.com allows users to erase search queries – Yahoo! News Librarians have understood the importance of private circulation records for decades. Good to see that Ask does too. (tags: usagelogs)

C.I.A. Destroyed Tapes of Interrogations – New York Times More evident of responsible government in action. (tags: obstructionofjustice archives humanrights witness.org)

BLDGBLOG: The future warehouse of unwanted books (tags: britishlibrary library archives preservation storage) Future Reading / Digitization and its Discontents NYer again (tags: digitization) Software That Lasts 200 Years Important paper on software for societal infrastructure. (tags: open software preservation sustainability oss future society technology)

Zamzar – Free online file conversion This looks like a useful service, maybe one that should be maintained by the library community. (tags: file format conversion) Retro 80s and 90s Commercials and Cartoons at RetroStatic.com (tags: commercials history videos archives)

FOSS Codecs for Online Video: Usability, Uptake and Development Imporant piece on open formats for video. (tags: oss video ogg xvid)