Submitted by Richard Ranft on Tue, 03/08/2010 - 19:04
We're all producing audiovisual files, but has anyone ever seen one? Where do they live? Can you point to one? Will you flip a switch or click on an icon and find nothing but a puff of smoke, or an error message? Do you know about the encoding and metadata inside the file, and the wrapper around it all? Do you know how to deal with 'compression' (data reduction) - when to avoid it, how to live with it, how to escape it, and what the roadmap is for your own audiovisual files?
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Thu, 08/07/2010 - 21:33
Our "Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects" (IASA-TC 04), prepared by the IASA Technical Committee, is a highly acclaimed authority on digital audio preservation used by sound archivists worldwide.
The full text and illustrations are now available online: http://www.iasa-web.org/tc04/audio-preservation
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