[LINK] Guidelines for Digital Repositories, Canberra, 27 July

[Dr Bob Jansen]

Gordon,

I would have thought that to maximise the chance to of successfully  
reading and understanding the bitstream in the future (which is the  
whole purpose of archiving and preserving the thing) that  
uncompressed video, although large in the space requirement,  
represents the best archival format. Any compression is surely a by  
product of the delivery and display technology in use and thus this  
will change over time as delivery and display environment get better.  
Raw DV is a well documented format and thus this would be my  
recommendation as to archival format.

bobj

On 21/07/2006, at 10:11 AM, Gordon Keith wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:49, Tom Worthington wrote:
>> Although there is a lot of discussion and documentation, worldwide,
>> on the issues surrounding the sustainability of digital material,
>
> Related to this topic, does anyone know if any guidelines exist in  
> terms of
> codecs suitable for archival of video data?
>
> I'm aware of the use of ODF formats in preference to proprietary  
> formats for
> the archival of word processing documents. And I know a lot of  
> video codecs
> are encumbered by patents and possibly unpublished formats.
>
> Are there any video codecs suitable for archival of video data?
> Are there any guidelines I can refer to?
>
> Regards
> Gordon
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