[PADG:1573] PADG Follow-up from Vidipax

[Karen Brown <kebrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The following message comes from Dan Gaydos of VidiPax.

"It was an honor to be with you last Saturday to help in all aspects of
media preservation problems and solutions. Below are standards and
guidelines pertaining to Magnetic Media. Of course, you will see many
parallels between audio and video standards. Anyone who didn't get a
Video Format Guide (the slide-rule-type guide of all the video formats,
dates, etc.), email me (  ) with your address and I'll send it
out. As a member of the Audio Engineering Society Historical Committee,
our group has been charged with the task of finding a home for much of
the AES Standards Committee's Research Library. Please let me know
if your library is interested in acquiring these references and research
texts, and I will send the list. (Yes this is the body that developed
the standards below!)
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Magnetic Media Preservation Standards and Guides 1/19/02
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1. SMPTE - Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, "Care,
Handling and Storage of TV Magnetic Recording Tape",
http://www.smpte.org/
(available for purchase)
2. ISO - International Organization For Standardization, ISO 18923,
"Imaging Materials - Polyester-Base Magnetic tape- Storage Practices
www.iso.org (available for purchase in "ISO Store")
3. NTA and the National Media Lab - The Commission on Preservation and
Access, "Magnetic Tape Storage and Handling"
http://www.nta.org Click on "Search" and Type in "Magnetic Tape Storage
and
Handling". Probably the best guides, though not technically a standard.
4. Gilles St-Laurent, "Care and Handling of Recorded Sound Materials",
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byauth/st-laurent/care.html
5. AES - Audio Engineering Society. All below are available as PDF.
Others available for purchase. www.aes.org/standards
a. AES38-2000, "Life Expectancy (LE) of Information Stored in
Recordable CD systems"
b. AES7-2000, "Method of Measuring Recorded Fluxivity"
c. AES22-97, Storage of Polyester-base Magnetic Tape"
d. AES28-1997, "Life Expectancy of Compact Discs (CD ROM)
e. SC-03-04 and the like are committee reports on digital archiving
issues that can be found in the lists at
www.aes.org/standards/reports/meeting
6. ALA/ALCTS, "Preservation Policy",
www.ala.org/alcts/publications/preservation
7. Book: "Promoting Preservation Awareness in Libraries", Jeanne M.
Drewes, ed., ISBN: 0-313-30206-S, Greenwood Publishing,
www.greenwood.com
8. Magnetic Media Standards Developers
Links to many of them are listed here.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
IEC TC 100 Multimedia systems
IEC TC 100 Multimedia systems WG2 [Category-D liaison]
IEC SC 100B Audio recording [Category-D liaison]
IEC SC 100C Audio systems [Category-D liaison]
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
National standards bodies
Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association of
Japan
(JEITA)
Electronic Industries Association [US] (EIA)
MIDI Manufacturers' Association (MMA)
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)"

Dan.Gaydos@xxxxxxxxxxx

Karen E.K. Brown
Preservation Librarian
University at Albany Libraries
kebrown@xxxxxxxxxx
518/437-3925