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Digital Image and Video Links
These pages were correct at the end of 2009 but are no longer maintained
Note that links on this page appear in no particular order. Use your browser's 'Find on page' function to find keywords of interest within this set.
| Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial | This tutorial offers base-level information on the use of digital imaging to convert and make accessible cultural heritage materials. It also introduces some concepts advocated by Cornell University Library, in particular the value of benchmarking requirements before undertaking a digital initiative. You will find here up-to-date technical information, formulas, and reality checks, designed to test your level of understanding. |
| Tips for Document Scanning and Record Storage | Scanning is an effective way to maintain important documents. Regular, paper documents develop signs of age over time. Smudged ink, yellowing, tears and other damage may occur that result in documents become illegible. Paper documents may easily become lost, often as a result of misfiling or by accidentally being discarded. By scanning an original document, people are creating a digital copy that can be stored on a computer, CD, or other digital media for future viewing or printing. |
| Kodak info on permanence, care and handling of CDs | Long life for any information storage medium is always a combination of manufacturers' and users' responsibilities. As a manufacturer of recordable CD products, Kodak believes strongly in sharing information that helps users of CD technology understand all aspects of CD longevity. |
| Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (MAAP) | MAAP is a not for profit organisation that promotes excellence in art and technology in Australia/Asia Pacific regions. MAAP is a presentational platform to enhance awareness and exchange of creative ideas in New Media Art focusing on Australia and the Asia Pacific regions. MAAP showcases a wide range of unique art and technology projects. MAAP provides a space for artists, multimedia developers, screen practitioners, and sound artists to exhibit and profile work created in this domain. Artforms include new media installation, web design, digital graphics, animation, video, sound, photography, CD-ROM, and the Internet. MAAP (Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Inc). MAAP seeks to create an international space dedicated to fostering artistic creativity and experimentation in digital and other contemporary technologies. MAAP seeks to expand critical debate in the art form and to the wider community. |
| Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis - EVIA Digital Archive | The EVIA Digital Archive project is a joint effort of Indiana University and the University of Michigan to establish a digital archive of ethnomusicological video for use by scholars and instructors. |
| The art of Kula | Nearly a century ago, it was predicted that the exchange of shell valuables in the Massim region of Papua New Guinea, Kula, would disappear. Not only has this prophecy failed to come true, but today Kula is expanding beyond these island communities to the mainland and Australia. |
| Timeframes: Online database of heritage images (New Zealand) | Timeframes is an online database of heritage images from the Alexander Turnbull Library. |
| National Library of Australia Pictures Catalogue (Australia and the Pacific) | This catalogue contains descriptions of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and three-dimensional objects held in the Pictures Collection of the National Library of Australia. The emphasis is on Australian material, with some material relating to New Zealand, Antarctica, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. The main time period covered is late eighteenth century to the present day. The Collection includes thousands of portraits of significant Australians |
| Moving Images of the Pacific Islands (University of Hawaii) | The Center for Pacific Islands Studies has recently completed (January 2003) a revision of its on-line Guide to Films and Videos about the Pacific Islands on this site. The database contains over 2,700 entries |
| Digital Imaging Tutorial: Cornell University Library | This tutorial offers base-level information on the use of digital imaging to convert and make accessible cultural heritage materials. It also introduces some concepts advocated by Cornell University Library, in particular the value of benchmarking requirements before undertaking a digital initiative. You will find here up-to-date technical information, formulas, and reality checks, designed to test your level of understanding. |
| National Archive photosearch | A searchable archive of photographs in the National Archives. |
| Micronesia over the years the MicSem photo albums | Each of the following mini-albums on the islands offer a look backward at Micronesia as it was yesterday. It is a walk through the past, as seen in images rather than written text. The albums are changed periodically and feature photos from the Micronesian Seminar library collection and the resources of other institutions in the area. |
| Audio/Video Capture and Management, NINCH Guide to Good Practice | Despite differences in format and standards, the fundamental issues for capture, storage and management of audio and video are quite similar and will therefore be considered together. This article looks at the motives for digitisation and why sample projects have chosen particular digitisation strategies, briefly describes the decision points and principles of audio and video capture, outlines the main standards and formats and their suitability for different access scenarios, and considers options for delivery and management. |
