FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2019

In times of immediate availability of media through digital and networked dissemination paths, new and exciting approaches for archive use and completely file based media production,  the vast repertoires of physical archive content are being inevitably unlocked in the time to come.  Although this being one of the major quests of any archive owner, many archives still struggle  with providing access to their legacy content and, equally important, with developing a  long term digital preservation strategy.

Even though challenging enough on its own, mass migration of physical collections to the digital domain is only the first big step; it takes more to build a state of the art media repository. Organizing and describing the sounds and images within the archive is a most vital prerequisite, let alone storage and essence management.

 The presenter will talk about the multiplicity of tasks that are necessary in preservation projects,  pointing out that not all of them are synchronous processes, and how their coexistence can  lead to efficient orchestration and labour separation. With a main focus on structured cataloguing processes, it will be described how to bridge the annotation gap between digitization and access.