How Cultural Institutions Are Benefiting From Digitization Of Photo Archives

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How Cultural Institutions Are Benefiting From Digitization Of Photo Archives “Today digital technology is pervasive. It is mandatory that museums, libraries, and archives join with educational institutions in embracing it.” Wayne Clough, Author, Best of Both Worlds Museums and cultural institutions are leaving no stone unturned to digitize history. Archiving photos form an integral part […]

Photo Digitization: Top Six Mistakes To Avoid

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Photo Digitization: Top Six Mistakes To Avoid For centuries, pictures have been documenting history. Long before cameras came into existence, humans used to paint on the walls of the caves to depict scenes from their daily lives, communicate with each other, and pass on their culture to the future generations. Important events like meetings between […]

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence In Digitization

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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence In Digitization Digitization is a necessity today – both for restoring and making it searchable. Be it physical libraries or digital media, media organizations and content owners are investing in digitization and archiving of legacy content. Organizations often spend hours in recreating or searching for content that already exists. Aged and untreated […]

7 Common Mistakes To Avoid While Digitizing Your Content

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7 Common Mistakes To Avoid While Digitizing Your Content Attributing to the loss of valuable content and the burgeoning demand for good content by today’s digital consumer, media organizations and content owners have been investing in digitization and archiving of content. Digitization of legacy content is not just about converting analog into digital, but a […]

So Long VCR, Long Live The Content

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So Long VCR, Long Live The Content A usual afternoon. As Zoya was arranging her collection of movies and music, she suddenly laid her hands on an old box. Curious, she ripped the box open and was instantly transported to her childhood – when living room was ruled by bulky colored television sets with few […]

Digitization Of Audio Video Content For Long Term Preservation

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Digitization Of Audio Video Content For Long Term Preservation The challenges of long-term preservation of digital information have been discerned by the archival community for years. In December 1994, the Research Libraries Group (RLG) and the Commission on Preservation and Access (CPA) formed a Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information with the main aim […]

Why Managing Media Assets Is Important For Broadcasters

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Why Managing Media Assets Is Important For Broadcasters Spreaders and other media enterprises face a Herculean challenge of developing more and more high-quality content, spreading across an ever-shifting array of novel devices and programs, and driving higher revenue from every asset they make. All the same, many content production and broadcasting infrastructures are built on […]

Audiovisual Digitization In The Age Of Broadcasting

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Audiovisual Digitization In The Age Of Broadcasting Digitization in the age of broadcasting Broadcasting is indeed proliferating with its multiple screen adaptation, home videos, streaming, OTT and instant content generation. Yet are the broadcasters preserving and monetizing the extensive and instant content warehouse? “Any physical artifact is just that, a physical artifact,” says Mike Mashon, Library of […]