Abstract / topic summary
Many digitisation projects are faced with constraints on budget, time and equipment, forcing then to do 'the best they can'? How good is that, and how does it compare with true preservation quality? This presentation shows how to give a quantitative evaluation, a number, to digitisation methods for audio, video and film. The result is the ability to say whether you've achieved, for instance, 30% of preservation quality, or 90%.
Speaker summary
Richard Wright
Richard Wright was the archive preservation specialist in the BBC Archive and BBC Research in London, from 1994 to 2011. He has 30 years of experience in broadcast archive technology and digitisation, working with the one million hour BBC archive, and working in collaborative projects with other audiovisual collections across Europe. He has participated in broadcast archive preservation training worldwide. He is a signal processing engineer with a PhD from the University of Southampton, and has been working on digital audio and video since 1967. He started the Presto series of European projects on audiovisual preservation and digitisation (Presto, PrestoSpace, PrestoPRIME) and coined the term preservation factory: collection-level planning and efficient workflows in digitisation.
