IMR 665: Management of Audio Visual Records & Archives. Individual Assignment: Article summary / Muhammad Ruznizam Ruzuki

Summary of the articles: “Digital Preservation of Audio, Video and Film” & “100 million Hours of Audiovisual Content: Digital Preservation and Access in The Prestoprime Project”

This two article are about the digital audiovisual preservation and the improving the access of the audiovisual with online digital libraries. Nowadays, the need of digitization of audiovisual is very important. The audiovisual be any document that they want to save such as cassette, microfilm, microfiche, video tapes, films, and any other thing on which information is recorded or stored. The function of digitization of audiovisual is to preserve the audiovisual materials that have historical, social, and economic value. But even in this technology era, many staff or personnel still did not preserve the audiovisual properly. It is because there are many great challenge and difficulties in preserving the audiovisual material. In this article, there are solutions that about how to organize the preservation for audio, video and film properly. The article also focus on digital preservation which the large files of digital video need to be preserved at high quality.