Jörg Houpert

This paper describes the quality control (QC) processes for a large-scale digital migration project conducted by österreichischer Rundfunk, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. It provides an overview of the initial requirements and the motivation for introducing an additional, independent QC layer, and describes the implementation process as wel...

This deliverable describes the demand, the concept and suggests solutions for born robust audio-visual files. A list of tools fostering file robustness is presented as well as the current state of born robust attributes in the standardisation process media formats.

This is a report on the way in which loss and damage to digital AV content occurs for different content types, AV data carriers and preservation systems. Three different loss modes have been identified, and each has been analysed in terms of existing solutions and longterm effects. This report also includes an in-depth treatment of format compatib...

This is the final report from the DAVID project on IT-based tools, strategies and risk management for digital Audio-visual (AV) preservation. Digitised and born-digital AV content presents new challenges for preservation and long-term quality assurance. Archives have rapidly developed strategies for avoiding, mitigating and recovering from digital...

Millions of videocassettes are still stored on shelves, carrying valuable content waiting to be transferred into files before decomposing. Time is running short: not only does tape stock decay, but videotape recorder (VTR) availability becomes critical, and VTR service experts are becoming rare. As it is the final transfer, a technology for highly...

The report contains information on the state of the art in digital damage prevention and repair of audio-visual media. It has been compiled in course of the project definition of DAVID. The DAVID project addresses specific research questions for preservation and restoration of audio-visual media. Details on the continuing project can be found at ww...

For safeguarding and restoring single-carrier sound archives to the platform-independent "eternal" broadcast wave format (BWF) files stores in online robotic archives an automated quality-supervising scalable audio workstation was developed. The advantage of this concept is that the digitized sound signal is stored in the BWF file together with any...