[QuadList] Fwd: Library of Congress: Video and audio archive feedback request for degraded tape identification process

[Ted Langdell]

Good Tuesday, Quad List members,

Thought many of you would be interested in the research being done at the Library of Congress, and would want to participate in the next phase.

Please take a look at the message sent by LoC Scientist Eric Breitung regarding the Library's research into non-destructive identification of degraded magnetic tape.

I've CC'ed Eric so he knows that his message is getting wider distribution.

Ted

Ted Langdell
(530) 301-2931
ted at quadvideotapegroup.com
Secretary for the  QuadVideotapeGroup.com: 
Preserving Tape, Equipment and the Knowledge to use them, in conjunction with the Library of Congress



Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Breitung, Eric" <ebre at LOC.GOV>
> Date: October 22, 2013 5:32:02 AM PDT
> To: AMIA-L at LSV.UKY.EDU
> Subject: AMIA List-- Video and audio archive feedback request for degraded tape identification process
> Reply-To: Association of Moving Image Archivists <AMIA-L at LSV.UKY.EDU>
> 
>  I’m a scientist at the Library of Congress and have been working on a process for non-destructively identifying degraded magnetic tapes along with collaborators at the University of South Carolina, and we are in need of input from the video archiving/preservation community! 
>  
> To date, we’ve focused on 1/4" audio with a high degree of success.  The next 12 months will determine whether a similar process is useful for 2-3 video formats.  I am requesting your assistance in identifying the formats on which we should focus our efforts.  The Moving Image Research Center at USC developed a survey (LINK TO SURVEY) for this purpose.  If you are a custodian of large tape collections or have experience processing/digitizing/copying audio or video tapes, your participation is critical to the broad application of this research!  The results of the survey will be used as a guide for determining what types of tapes will be assessed, and hence, which formats will be covered in the resulting reference database.
>  
> I will send annotated slides describing the process and results to those interested.  The slides are from a presentation of the project given at the 2013 American Institute of Conservation Annual Meeting.  The culmination of this work, if successful, will result in a public database and free software allowing institutions to non-destructively triage tapes in house.
>  
> The survey takes about 10 minutes to complete, and we thank you in advance for helping.
>  
>  Please feel free to forward this to colleagues at other institutions that may be interested and contact me directly for slides or other information.  For those that may want to participate in the research, I encourage you to provide your contact information at the end of the survey.
>  
> Sincerely,
>  
>  Eric Breitung
>  
> ebre at loc.gov
> Library of Congress
> Preservation Research and Testing Division
> Washington, DC
>  
> ACTUAL SURVEY LINK:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GQG0u63Jxfwr_isQJ1IKXku1GPzmUR0JYfm2XDJU5gk/viewform?sid=36ca9db417b87266&token=aHu31j0BAAA.gUgvBmrYWwPwo4Ya-D0_jA.A9gjFTP4lJuH17mo4HV8Sg
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