![]() ![]() Our future abilities to safeguard audiovisual materials-and to guarantee access over the long-term-will hinge in large part upon the continued support of projects that are striving to remove the barriers and obstacles impeding the progress of our time-sensitive, yet critical mission. Given the intense pressures and demands of audiovisual preservation, this radical reorientation could not be timelier. Public good: something that should be shared, cared for collectively, and made Itself, thinking of it as more than a set of tools and processes, rather, as a Organization ” adopting this perspective allows us to recast quality control Shifting notions of property can alter the possibilities of social How social organization can change the meaning of property, and conversely, how Indigenous political statements of the digital world” (7). Software is “in some ways the first and certainly one of the most prominent ![]() Open Source (2004), the unlikely phenomenon of free and open source Overstatement or romanticizing, as Steven Weber describes in The Success of 1 While this could be easily dismissed as mere Rise to new infrastructural models, new relational modes, and new ways of Source ethos into the audiovisual preservation community, one that is giving In a wider sense, QCTools marks the continuing spread of a free or open Into the world of FFmpeg, and its dissemination through the web-based Git-repository In particular, QCTools reveals productive pathways through itsĬompanionship with the Audio/Visual Artifact Atlas (AVAA), its incorporation Of QCTools lie not in its source code, but rather in the political, economic,Īnd institutional implications that erupt from its new forms of social With free and open source software communities more broadly, the true successes Served as a powerful reminder that it is inclusiveness that will ultimatelyĭictate the long-term prospects of all such efforts. Table, helping to refine and expand the goals of the project, but they also Not only did these diverse communities bring new ideas to the Generated an unexpectedly broad base of users, from media artists to softwareĭevelopers. Institutions (libraries, archives, and museums), the eclectic nature of QCTools While specifically targeting those at work in cultural heritage Spearheaded this effort to develop and create a sustainable body of users for Research and Development Program, the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) Users to better understand and analyze their digital video files, whetherīorn-digital or the result of analog-to-digital reformatting.įunding from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Preservation and Access Outdated methods-has resulted in free and open source software that allows Quality control process, rather than reliance upon proprietary systems or This push for more self-determination-for an assertion of control over the Interest in the development of software tools designed to suit their own needs. Simple, yet singular idea: that video preservationists must not cede their own Quality Control Tools for Video Preservation (QCTools) project was born of a It therefore now forms a cornerstone to ensuring that the new generation of those who are caring for our collections are equipped with the skills and training to respond to a file based environment.” (Laurenson 2015) This tool set has provided a means of examining video material that previously would not have been possible for the majority of conservators and archivists. ![]() ![]() “The BAVC QC Tool Set is perhaps the most significant recent tool development for those working in the preservation of video. The inevitable decline of magnetic media, there is no time to delay. Than relying on proprietary, stretched-to-fit, corporate solutions. Represents: that we can, and should, design these tools for ourselves, rather QCTools is significant both for the functions its serves, and for what it Adopted widely within the audiovisual preservation community, Motivations, technical developments, challenges, and future prospects for the The following essay, adapted from a white paper, describes the Quality control software designed to aid in the analysis of reformatted analog The result of this work was QCTools, free and open source The Electronic Media Review, Volume Four: 2015-2016 ABSTRACTįrom 2013-2015, members of the Bay Area VideoĬoalition’s Preservation Department worked closely with a technical team led byĭave Rice on a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded research andĭevelopment project. ![]()
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