Electronic Resources
CCAAA Associations
More resources are available for members of each Association.
AMIA
- The Moving Image Journal, a peer-reviewed journal that explores topics relevant to both the media archivist and the media scholar.
- The AMIA Supplier Directory: A Global Directory of Services and Suppliers of Audiovisual Media is an international resource guide for anyone working with audiovisual media
- Selected publications by AMIA's members and leading voices
- Job Listings
- General ressources to be found here and there
- List of available webinars for members and non-members
FIAF
Technical Commission
- Online Resources, a list of over 100 useful links to technical resources
- Results of the FIAF Film Stock Survey 2012 (The secretariat can provide the supporting spreadsheet to anyone in the FIAF community who asks to see more detail)
- Digital Preservation Principles, the basic principles underpinning a trustworthy digital repository, based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS)
- Preservation Best Practice, the principles of Acquisition, Conservation, Preservation, Restoration, Access and Presentation (2009)
- The Glossary of Technical Terms (full list and search engine)
- The List of All Photochemical Film Labs Operating in the World Today (full list and search engine)
- Film Restoration / FIAF Summer School - Online Ressources
- Film Duplication Resolution Tests
- Digital Technology Guidance Papers:
o Choosing a Film Scanner, some thoughts on film scanner technology for film archives
o Setting up a digitisation workflow, a case study by EYE Film Institute, Netherlands
o Digital Cinema Technology and DCPs, how DCPs work, by Arne Nowak
o Digital Cinema Equipment FAQs, a set of questions answered by Torkell Sætervadet, based on his book, FIAF Digital Projection Guide
Cataloguing and Documentation Commission
Programming and Access to Collections Commission
IASA
Special Publications:
- IASA-TC 03 (2005) The Safeguarding of the Audio Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy available in the following languages: English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Chinese.
- IASA-TC 04 (2009) Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects available in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Catalan.
- IASA-TC 05 (2014) Handling and Storage of Audio and Video Carriers available in English and Italian
- Ethical Principles for Sound and Audiovisual Archives (2010)
- IASA Journal
Guidelines & Policies:
Other IASA Resources:
- IASA links: a large database of links to broadcast, research and national archives, and related organisations
- 40 Years of IASA in Words & Images (IASA’s history from 1969-2009)
ICA - Photographic and Audiovisual Archives Working Group
- The Survival Kit provides basic resources to those archivists who face the challenge of organizing and managing photographic and audiovisual material.
- A Chronology of Photographic and Audiovisual Media depicts the evolution of different technologies and media: cinema, photo, sound and video. The chronology compares what is happening for each technology in different periods using nearly 100 illustrations.
- The Case Studies address the fundamentals of processing photographic and audiovisual archives, with an eye toward future research. For each six cases the specificities of a collection are highlighted and solutions are explained.
- Online publications for archivists managing photograph and films collections.
IFLA - Audiovisual and Multimedia Section
Browse the Repository.
It includes ressources on topics such as public libraries, UN Sustainable Development Goals, information literacy, cataloguing, advocacy, professional development and much more.
Other Organizations
- World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
- International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM)
- Audio Engineering Society (AES)
- Moving picture Experts Group (MPEG)
- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
- European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
- Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)
- National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)