Digital Audio and Video Resources (D5.d)

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Digital Audio and Video Guidelines

Audio-Visual Documents and Guidelines (U.S. Federal Agencies, Still Image Working Group)
http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/audio-visual/ (accessed November 10, 2008)

Oral History in the Digital Age
http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/ (accessed December 19, 2012)
Offers best practices documents and links to many other guides and standards for digitization.

Digital Audio Resources

Organizations

International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA)
http://www.iasa-web.org/ (accessed May 12, 2008)

Utilities

AV Storage Calculator (Rorke Data)
http://www.rorke.com/avcalc/avcalc_success.cfm (accessed May 12, 2008)

Bandwidth to Filesize calculator (Peter Forret)
http://web.forret.com/tools/filesize.asp (accessed May 12, 2008)

dBpoweramp Music Converter
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm (accessed May 12, 2008)

Creating Digital Audio

Akustyk (Bartek Plichta)
http://bartus.org/akustyk/adc_starter.php (accessed December 19, 2012)
Recommendations of tools and methods of audio digitization.

Audio/Video Capture and Management (chapter VII of The NINCH Guide to Gaod Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials)
http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/VII/ (accessed May 12, 2008)

Audio-Visual Working Group (Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Intitatives, US Goverment)
http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/audio-visual/ (accessed October 3, 2008)

Best Practice for Digitizing Audio, by Brian Millward (Center for Digital Humanities Innovation, Malaspina University-College) http://cdhi.mala.bc.ca/bestpractices/Uvicmanuals/Section1.htm#section1 (accessed May 12, 2008)

Capturing Analog Sound for Digital Pre.ervation: Report of a Roundtable Discussion of Best Practices for Transferring Analog Discs and Tapes. Commissioned for and sponsored by the National Recording Preservation Board, Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, March 2006.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub137abst.html (accessed May 12, 2008)

Creating digital audio files: a step-by-step guide (AHDS)
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/creating/guides/audio-resources/GGP_Audio_7.1.htm (accessed May 12, 2008)

Digital Audio Best Practices, v. 2.1 (October 2006) - BCR's Colorado Digitization Program (CDP)
http://www.bcr.org/dps/cdp/digitaltb/digital_audio/index.html (accessed May 12, 2008)

Digital Audio Essentials, by Bruce Fries and Marty Fries, April 2005, (O'Reilly Media), 0-596-00856-2 (Book)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/digaudio/index.html (accessed May 12, 2008)

Digital Audio Formats, 2000 (TeamCom Books)
Chapter 12 of The MP3 and Internet Audio Handbook.
http://teamcom.biz/MP3Handbook/MP3_Handbook.htm (accessed May 12, 2008)

Digital Audio Primer, 2000 (TeamCom Books)
Chapter 11 of The MP3 and Internet Audio Handbook.
http://teamcom.biz/MP3Handbook/MP3_Handbook.htm (accessed May 12, 2008)

Digital Audio Primer, by Jason Cross (January 26, 2004)
http://www.ou.edu/class/digitalmedia/articles/DigitylAudioPrimer.htm (accessed May 12, 2008)

Digitising audio: an outline (AHDS)
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/creating/guides/audio-resources/GGP_Audio_3.1.htm (accessed May 12, 2008)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) About Digital Audio and Video Records (National Archives and Records Administration)
http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/initiatives/dav-faq.html (accessed May 12, 2008)

Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects, ed. By Kevin Bradley, August 2004 (iasa-TC04), 87-990309-1-8
http://www.iasa-web.org/audio-preservation-tc04 (accessed May 12, 2008)

Large Scale Digitization of Oral History, Eric Weig, et al. (D-LIB May/June 2007)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may07/weig/05weig.html (accessed May 12, 2008)
<doi:10.1045/may2007-weig> (accessed May 12, 2008)

PC Recording
http://www.pcrecording.com/ (accessed May 12, 2008)

Preservation Handbook: Digital Audio (ahds)
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/preservation/audio-preservation-handbook.pdf (accessed May 12, 2008)

Sound (Library of Congress)
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/content/sound.shtml (accessed May 12, 2008)

Web Audio/Video Players

Download Multimedia Goodies (WebDeveloper's Journal)
http://webdevelopersjournal.com/software/multimedia_goodies.html (accessed May 12, 2008)

Audio Recorders/Converters

Spin It Again (Acoustica)
Copy and clean up audio from vinyl LPs and cassette tape to a computer in MP3, OGG, WMA, and hi-fi WAV files. Includes automatic track detection and CD burning component.
http://www.acoustica.com/spinitagain/index.htm (accessed January 12, 2010)

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Digital Video Resources

Utilities

Video Bandwidth/Frame Rate Estimator (Sorenson Services)
http://www.sorenson-usa.com/vbe/index.html (accessed May 12, 2008)

Creating Digital Video

Audio/Video Capture and Management (chapter VII of The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials)
http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/VII/ (accessed May 12, 2008)

Choosing a Suitable Digital Video Format (UKOLN)
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/briefiigs/briefing-25/html/ (accessed May 12, 2008)

Creating Digital Video for Instruction, by Lisa Sedlak (Virginia Tech, 2003)
http://www.fdi.vt.edu/Archive/content/instructional_content/2003/DAV/DVClass.pdf (accessed December 17, 2010)

Creating Moving Images (Moving Image Collections)
http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu/scienceeducators_portal/sci_creatmi.htm (accessed May 12, 2008)

Digital Moving Images and Sound Archiving Study, August 2006 (AHDS)
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/about/projects/archiving-studies/moving-images-sound-archiving-final.pdf (accessed May 12, 2008)

Moving Images (Library of Congress)
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/content/video.shtml (accessed May 12, 2008)

Towards a New Meta-Standard for Long-Term Digital Video Preservation - A Quick Overview, by Glenn Pearson, 2005 (CEB-NLM)
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/VideoArchivists2005/maf-review.html (accessed May 12, 2008)

Video Metadata

Cataloging and Metadata Portal (Moving Image Collections)
http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu/catalogers_portal/cat_index.htm (accessed May 12, 2008)

Video Formats

READ ME to Archivists about thA MPEG-A Process, by Glenn Pearson, 2005 (CEB-NLM)
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/VideoArchivists2005/readme-mpeg.html (accessed May 12, 2008)

Video Codec Definitions (www.FOURCC.org)
http://www.fourcc.org/indexcod.htm (accessed June 26, 2008)

Video Preservation

Imaging and Digitization Articles (Electronic Media Group)
http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/emg/library/ (accessed May 12, 2008)
Links to resources.

Independent Media Arts Preservation
http://www.imappreserve.org/ (accessed May 12, 2008)

Preservation Handbook: Moving Image, by Gareth Knight and John McHugh, July 27, 2005
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/preservation/video-preservation-handbook.pdf (accessed May 12, 2008)

Video Preservation (CoOL)
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/video/ (accessed May 12, 2008)
Links to resources.

VideoPreservation Website (Timothy Vitale and Paul Messier)
http://videopreservation.stanford.edu/ (accessed May 12, 2008)
Links to resources.

Video Terminology Resources

Formats (electronic arts intermix)
http://resourceguide.eai.org/formats.html (accessed May 12, 2008)

Glossary (electronic arts intermix)
http://resourceguide.eai.org/glossary.html (accessed May 12, 2008)

Glossary of Video Terms (Association of Cinema & Video Laboratories)
http://www.acvl.org/acvl_manual/video_terms.html (accessed May 12, 2008)

Glossary of Film / Video Termsa(Kodak)
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/support/glossary/glossary.jhtml (accessed May 12, 2008)

Streaming Media

Digital Video: Best Practices for Faculty-Convergence of Broadcast and Streaming, Timothy J. Lorang and Kathleen McMonigal (June 2005)
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/Resource_library/proceedings/04_1277.pdf (accessed May 12, 2008)

Streaming Media Systems

Helix - http://www.realnetworks.com (accessed May 12, 2008)

Icecast - http://www.icecast.org (accessed May 12, 2008)

QuickTime - http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ (accessed May 12, 2008)

Nicecast - http://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/ (accessed May 12, 2008)

SHOUTcast - http://www.shoutcast.com/ (accessed May 12, 2008)

Windows Media Services - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sindowsmedia/ (accessed May 12, 2008)

Streaming Media Services

Vimeo.com
http://www.vimeo.com (accessed May 12, 2008)