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Links to Resources Online

Annotated: 2023 


Suggested Local Minnesota Resources for Digital Conversion and Duplication. Our recommendations for Twin Cities Prosumer or Consumer Services, Home movies and videotapes. Let them know you found their website link here at Minnesota Media Arts! Thanks, Mark Stanley & Ron McCoy:

Saving Tape - Tape and film transfers, DVD's, photos, many media formats to digital files. Contact Thor at 612-822-7283 http://www.savingtape.com/

Two Squares - Video, film, slide, tape duplication and transfer to DVD, CD, and Digital Files. Contact Aaron at 763-400-4510 https://www.twosquares.com/

Home Video Studio - Tape Transfer & Conversion Services. Contact Chris at 952-829-8018 https://bloomington.homevideostudio.com


Video Archiving reference links:

Recommended Video Archive Standards from the Minnesota Historical Society
http://mnmediaarts.org/video-archive-standards.html

For a better understanding of the importance of planning and
What an Archive Producer Does (blog post)
Archive Producer Roles: mnmediaarts.blogspot.com

Audio Video Preserve Interactive Chart on Cost of Inaction
The Cost of Inaction Calculator


Digitization Process and Guides

Bay Area Video Coalition (excellent place to start)
http://avcompass.bavc.org/

Jim Wheeler’s Videotape Preservation Handbook - Glossary & Formats
https://videopark.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WheelerVideo.pdf


Organizations that specialize in Video Archive work:

Minnesota Media Arts - Collections Care, Metadata, Analog Preservation to Digital.
https://mnmediaarts.org/ Contact Mark or Ron at 612-361-7476

Archival Works LLC - Analog to Digital Media Transfer, Film + Video, Metadata.
St. Paul, MN https://archivalworks.com Contact Brian at 651-366-0906

Media Transfer Service - Specialists in AV Preservation.
East Rochester, NY http://www.mediatransferservice.com/

Media Burn Chicago (featured in Craig Sinard’s Blog March 2016)
http://mediaburn.org/digitize-audio-video-tapes/

Bay Area Video Coalition (Pioneering 70’s group that has a wealth of information) http://www.bavc.org/   |  https://www.bavc.org/preserve-media

George Blood, Philadelphia, PA transfer firm, good overview,

Specs Bros in New Jersey, Good resource, Process steps and white papers

Preservation Links:

Minnesota Historical Society - preservation of collections, digital conversion
http://legacy.mnhs.org/grants/digital-conversion-and-reproduction

Library of Congress article from 2013 
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/08/a-new-guide-for-archiving-digital-video/

Smithsonian Institution Archives - preserving Film, Audio, and Video
siarchives.si.edu/services/forums/collections-care-guidelines-resources/

Smithsonian Digitization - Analog to Digital 

Smithsonian- Digitization on Demand

Council on Library and Information Resources - CLIR.ORG
http://www.clir.org

Dance in the American Cultural Context (CLIR) http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub84/documentation.html

NYU Libraries Preservation Guide
memoriav.ch/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/VARRFP.pdf

COOL Cultural Heritage Guide
http://cool.culturalheritage.org/bytopic/video/

Library of Congress - 2013 preservation guide
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/08/a-new-guide-for-archiving-digital-video/

Library of Congress - digital preservation
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/07/whither-digital-video-preservation/

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/


Museums featuring media preservation:

Museum of Modern Art (NYC) In depth story about their preservation efforts
http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2015/04/08/digitizing-momas-video-collection

School of the Art institute of Chicago Video Data Bank Library http://www.vdb.org/collection/Videofreex%20Archive

The Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive (California )
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9489s3qx/

Good 2007 New York Times article about the same Archive. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/arts/design/09kino.html?_r=0



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