Spearheaded this effort to develop and create a sustainable body of users for Research and Development Program, the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) Users to better understand and analyze their digital video files, whetherīorn-digital or the result of analog-to-digital reformatting.įunding from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Preservation and Access
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Outdated methods-has resulted in free and open source software that allows Quality control process, rather than reliance upon proprietary systems or This push for more self-determination-for an assertion of control over the Interest in the development of software tools designed to suit their own needs. Simple, yet singular idea: that video preservationists must not cede their own Quality Control Tools for Video Preservation (QCTools) project was born of a It therefore now forms a cornerstone to ensuring that the new generation of those who are caring for our collections are equipped with the skills and training to respond to a file based environment.” (Laurenson 2015) This tool set has provided a means of examining video material that previously would not have been possible for the majority of conservators and archivists. “The BAVC QC Tool Set is perhaps the most significant recent tool development for those working in the preservation of video.
The inevitable decline of magnetic media, there is no time to delay. Than relying on proprietary, stretched-to-fit, corporate solutions. Represents: that we can, and should, design these tools for ourselves, rather QCTools is significant both for the functions its serves, and for what it Adopted widely within the audiovisual preservation community, Motivations, technical developments, challenges, and future prospects for the The following essay, adapted from a white paper, describes the Quality control software designed to aid in the analysis of reformatted analog The result of this work was QCTools, free and open source The Electronic Media Review, Volume Four: 2015-2016 ABSTRACTįrom 2013-2015, members of the Bay Area VideoĬoalition’s Preservation Department worked closely with a technical team led byĭave Rice on a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded research andĭevelopment project.
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