Tag Archives: video

RUcore, Digital Video, and the China Boom

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Isaiah Beard

Recently, members of the Rutgers University Libraries at both integrated Information Systems and the Scholarly Communication Center began an auspicious collaboration with the Asia Society in New York City, in our first project to digitally preserve, to standards, their digital … Continue reading →

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Indiana University Moves Forward with its Media Preservation Initiative

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Isaiah Beard

The Media Preservation Site at Indiana University – Bloomington (IUB) makes its message plain and clear the moment you first set your eyes on it: “Our History is At Risk.” Home to at least 3 million media objects, including sound and moving image recordings, photos, documents, and artifacts, IUB has come to grips with the issue at hand: a great deal of their heritage is locked within obsolete electronic and analog playback formats for sound and moving images. And they’re doing something about it. Continue reading →

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Japan’s Crises, and its ramifications on digital preservation

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Isaiah Beard

The earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis in Japan may have far-reaching cultural and history-recording effects worldwide… possibly exacerbating a digital dark age. Continue reading →

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New Anticircumvention Rulemaking: Major Shifts in the DMCA thanks to Library of Congress

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Isaiah Beard

The Library of Congress has made some pretty significant decisions in how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is applied, affecting how we copy DVDs, jailbreak iPhones, and even circumvent DRM on eBooks and computer software. Continue reading →

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YouTube as a de facto cultural archive for past videos

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Isaiah Beard

YouTube is definitely the wild-west for video content, and if you look hard enough, you’ll find a lot of vintage video content.  Quite a few of it is uploaded by people whose rights to publish the stuff is questionable, but … Continue reading →

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