[PADG:1577] RE: PADG Follow-up from Vidipax

["RRS" <workace@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Karen:
    Please send me a copy of the Video Format Guide, and if you can spare a
second one it would be appreciated.

Thanking you in advance.

Ray Saikus
P.O. Box 32700
Cleveland, Ohio 44132-0700

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sparkman, Kathy" <Kathy_Sparkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <padg@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:29 PM
Subject: [PADG:1576] RE: PADG Follow-up from Vidipax


> Karen,
>
> I would appreciate receiving the Video Format Guide.
> Thanks so much!
>
> Kathy Sparkman
> Preservation Librarian
> Central Libraries
> Baylor University
> P.O. Box 97148
> Waco, Texas  76798-7148
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen Brown [mailto:kebrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:30 AM
> To: padg@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [PADG:1573] PADG Follow-up from Vidipax
>
>
> 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!)
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Magnetic Media Preservation Standards and Guides 1/19/02
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
>
>