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The tutorials cover both introductory and more advanced topics relating to storage management and digital archives. They also provide information about the use of the facilities on the site including the analysis tools.
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Tutorials (9)
 
Explore the compelling reasons to digitise your archive assets.
 
A quick guide to the options faced when choosing your digital archive storage solution
 
The SAM analysis tools allow an archive to estimate the costs and return on investment involved in a digital preservation project.
 
Digital storage media are critical for the succesful archival of audio visual assets ion the future, yet for many archives they present an entirely new set of problems. Key amongst these is a radical change in the standards of formats, the tools available to manage their quality, and the ways in which they may fail over time.
 
This tutorial is a guide to the key elements of the main preservation planning report.
 
Many AV archives are facing the same problems
 
What possible developments are most likely in the next ten years of digital mass storage? We review the most pertinent elements for Audio Visual Archives.
 
Using IT components for mass storage exposes archives to the issue of managing rapid obsolescence. This tutorial explains the main issues, and how archives can overcome them.
 
This tutorial is in preparation