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Using Open Source And Free Tools For AV Digital Preservation Workflows

By: AVP
September 8, 2012

Archiving and preservation consist of technology, people, and policies. For technology in particular, digital AV archives are largely indebted and beholden to a few sizable industries: cinema, broadcast, and information technology.

Commercial interests catering to the aforementioned industries have produced a seemingly attractive tool set that has the potential to provide archives with the ability to apply their policies in service of preservation-oriented workflows. Yet, even in the hands of larger well-resourced organizations, employing these tools can be challenging and resource intensive. How can smaller, resource-constrained AV archives efficiently apply cost effective tools and technologies to their workflows?

This article by Kara Van Malssen was originally published in AV Insider, Issue 2, September 2012.