Broadcast archives, film museums and other holders of audiovisual material, across Europe, are working with PrestoSpace: a major EC-supported project to develop preservation factories for transfer of ‘tapes on shelves’ to new, digital collections.
Moving to digital storage and delivery involves a major change of culture, technology and business processes for archives, as the bulk of material currently on shelves – something like 100 million hours across Europe – needs conversion to digital mass storage. This need is pressing, just at a time when digital storage technology is itself rapidly changing.
The purpose of this website is to collect and make available basic, usable information: cost, quality, reliability and access information about current and anticipated forms of storage technology.
This is a non-commercial website, where the project partners are presenting the results of our best efforts to collect and interpret information about archive storage issues.
Presto-Space partners actively involved in this work on storage are:
- BBC
- INA
- Hi-Stor
- ITI
- ORF
- SSL
- Stream UK
