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Explaining the Digital Dilemma

posted September 20, 2012

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Reducing to digital form everything written and published, and even said and thought, is surely going to produce as many cloud-stored ones and zeroes as there are grains of sand (ballpark estimate, only). For the rest of us, an essential aid in the monumental change in human affairs represented by gazillion-byte digitization will be generous experts ...

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What is the Artwork?

posted July 26, 2012

Painthouse as it was constructed at the Erfgoedlab. Photo by Erfgoedlab.

Examining Works of Media Art at the University of Amsterdam’s Erfgoedlab By Caylin Smith The thirteenth edition of the University of Amsterdam’s ErfgoedLab (HeritageLab) took place throughout June and allowed students in cultural heritage master’s programs to create conservation models for three media artworks. A non-profit organization, the ErfgoedLab is located within the Special Collections and the ...

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Seven Wonders of Motion Picture Film

posted October 12, 2011

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By Brian Guckian n “I’ve always believed in the magic of movies…and to me, the magic of movies is connected to 35 millimetre…because everyone thinks – you can’t help but think – that when you’re filming something on film, that you’re recording movement. You’re not recording movement – you are just taking a series of still pictures…there ...

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How Nitrate Film Burns: The State of Research

posted March 30, 2011

How Nitrate Film Burns: The State of Research

While archivists know all too well that nitrate film stock can catch fire, “understanding of the relationship between nitrate decomposition and combustibility remains weak.” That’s the thesis that Heather Heckman develops in “Burn After Viewing, or, Fire in the Vaults: Nitrate Decomposition and Combustibility,” an article in the Fall/ Winter issue of The American Archivist ...

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AMIA Tech Review Review

posted November 4, 2010

AMIA Tech Review Review

OK, this is not a review, but a strong suggestion that you check out the second installment of AMIA Tech Review, an Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) free online publication. Here is some of what’s covered: Tommy, The Who’s rock opera from 1975, was the predecessor to “modern multi-channel stereoscopic experience” and was ...

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