#amia11

AMIA Conference
15–19 November 2011 in Austin, TX

Tweets by @RetoKromer

• Two workshops are run today: «Can My Archive Live Forever?» and «Working on the Austin History Center’s 16mm Film Library».
• Very close to the #amia11 hotel. RT @KitOConnell: Circling up in the middle of thed street at south side of bridge. #ows #occupyaustin
• Starting very soon: «A #PBCore Cataloging Workshop». And this afternoon: «The Reel Thing Technical Symposium».
• «The Reel Thing» has remembered
  Alan Stark (1945–2011)
  preservationist, musician, mensch
• As long as the digital tools improve, the more important become ethical considerations on preservation and restoration.
• Chemical sound fade by bleaching the negative has been the state of the art at the beginning of sound cinema.
• Perhaps we aren’t foolish: we are not the only that record back onto 16 mm film after the digital restoration has been done.
• Is there someone out who is using PiratePad in order to take notes from the sessions?
  piratepad.net
• EN 15907 Standard: #Film identification – Enhancing interoperability of #metadata – Element sets and structures
  filmstandards.org/fsc/index.php/EN_15907
• A new version will be published soon. «YouTube Creator Playbook», v1.0, July 2011
  [sorry, dead link] (PDF, 14.3 MB)
• The Preservation Committee wishes to distillate solid founded resources for the field from the AMIA-L’s greatest hits.
• After the tsunami in Japan: shortage of magnetic tapes. After the flooding in Thailand: shortage of hard disk drives.
• The #Audiovisual #Artifact Atlas is fundamental for the field!
  preservation.bavc.org/artifactatlas/index.php/A/V_Artifact_Atlas
  #digitalisation #archives
• «The Digital Dilemma 2» report (perspective of independent filmmakers, documentarians, nonprofit AV archives) published in Dec 2011.
• Alas, the Digital Issues Committee seems to have some difficulties. Volunteers are invited to contact the chair or the board liaison.
• .@archivesnews (NARA) has published some useful resources
  www.archives.gov/preservation/products/
  #digitalisation #archives
• Outstanding session «Digitization, Reboot!» with @dericed, @AVGeeks and @footage. E.g. quick tutorial on #ffmpeg command line.
• FFmpeg (w/ libavcodec) is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream #audio and #video
  ffmpeg.org
• The tsunami in Japan caused also a shortage of spare parts for video recorders. Digitalise your old video cassette collections now!
• The amazing session «Fatally Flawed Film Formats» included also the Swiss 16 mm 3-D format by Bolex with Kern lenses.
• For the first time in my life I have seen a Pathé’s 4.75 mm film… in an old fashioned analogue projection! Just awesome!!!
• Dinner at @threadgills with a party of students and colleagues.
• Complains during the General Membership Meeting about bad and expensive WiFi, and suggestions for next year by @rufusderham et al.
• Many thanks to all: speakers and attendees, organisers and sponsors of #amia11. Safe travel home. And see you next year with improved 2.0!

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