Presentation during World Digital Preservation Day 2018 and International Conference 'Memory Makers' organised by DPC and the Dutch Digital Heritage Network

1. Sustainable ‘Memory in Motion’
Digital Preservation Skills for AV Archivists
Eef Masson, University of Amsterdam (e.l.masson@uva.nl)
29 November 2018, Amsterdam Museum
Title credit: the phrase in quotation marks is derived from
I. Blom, T. Lundemo and E. Røssaak (eds.), Memory in Motion (2016)

2. Sustainable ‘Memory in Motion’ - 2

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5. Talking Points
• The MA in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving
Image: introduction
• Digital preservation within the curriculum
• The role of practice-based learning
• Developments, prospects and… threats!
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6. MA Preservation and Presentation
of the Moving Image
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7. MA Preservation and Presentation
of the Moving Image
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Semester 1: Orientation Semester 2: Specialization I (Research)
Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 1 Block 2 Block 3
Collection and
Collection
Management (6 EC)
Preservation and
Restoration (12 EC:
6 EC theory + 6 EC
workshop)
Research Seminar and Thesis (18 EC)
Access and Reuse
(6 EC)
Cinema Histories
and Cultures
(6 EC)
This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice,
or
Curating the Moving Image (both 12 EC),
or
other elective(s) (12 EC or 2 x 6 EC)
Semester 3: Specialization II (Practice)
Block 1 Block 2 Block 3
Internship P&PMI (24 EC)
Project Proposal (6 EC)

8. MA Preservation and Presentation
of the Moving Image
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2. Broadcast
collections
1. Film/
cinema
3. Media art

9. MA Preservation and Presentation
of the Moving Image
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2. Broadcast
collections
1. Film/
cinema
3. Media art

10. MA Preservation and Presentation
of the Moving Image
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Semester 1: Orientation Semester 2: Specialization I (Research)
Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 1 Block 2 Block 3
Collection and
Collection
Management (6 EC)
Preservation and
Restoration (12 EC:
6 EC theory + 6 EC
workshop)
Research Seminar and Thesis (18 EC)
Access and Reuse
(6 EC)
Cinema Histories
and Cultures
(6 EC)
This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice,
or
Curating the Moving Image (both 12 EC),
or
other elective(s) (12 EC or 2 x 6 EC)
Semester 3: Specialization II (Practice)
Block 1 Block 2 Block 3
Internship P&PMI (24 EC)
Project Proposal (6 EC)

11. Digital Preservation within the Curriculum
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Impression and teaching materials from sessions on digital preservation technology
at Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, resp. Eye Filmmuseum (Nov. 2018)

12. Digital Preservation within the Curriculum
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Tour of Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision’s digital storage (Nov. 2018)

13. Digital Preservation within the Curriculum
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Digital preservation workshop at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Nov. 2012)

14. Digital Preservation within the Curriculum
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Teaching materials from
sessions on game preservation
and media art conservation,
at Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision,
resp. Living Media Arts foundation
(Nov. 2017)

15. Digital Preservation within the Curriculum
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Impressions from ‘Nitrate Week’,
resp. ‘Film Handling Day’
at Eye Filmmuseum
(May 2015; Sept. 2018)

16. Digital Preservation within the Curriculum
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Tour of Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision’s video and audio
digitisation facilities (Nov. 2018)

17. Digital Preservation within the Curriculum
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Portion form a slide used in a session on digital preservation in broadcast environments,
at Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Nov. 2017)

18. Digital Preservation within the Curriculum
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Text portion from A. de Jong,
“The Challenges of Becoming
a Trusted Digital Repository” (2015)

19. Practice-Based Learning
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Impressions from
Preservation and Restoration workshop
and final project presentations
at Eye Filmmuseum (Jan. 2018)

20. Practice-Based Learning
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Impressions from ‘Nitrate Week’
(Eye Filmmuseum, May 2015),
and Sound and Vision’s ‘Edit-a-thon’
(June 2014)
Dual/professional MA

21. Practice-Based Learning
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Case study materials
produced by Sofia Pires,
during her work placement
at Wim Wenders Stiftung,
Berlin (Autumn 2017), restoring
Der Himmel über Berlin
(W. Wenders, 1987)

22. Practice-Based Learning
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Work-in-progress in digitial ingest, at Eye Filmmuseum (Nov. 2018)

23. Practice-Based Learning
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Announcement of the 2017-8 EYE traineeship (awarded to Tulta Behm, PPMI class of 2017)

24. Developments, Prospects & Threats
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Image from the 2015 University of Amsterdam student and staff protests
against (among others) budget cuts

25. Developments, Prospects & Threats
Where to next?
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26. Developments, Prospects & Threats
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Key elements of the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model (source: dcc.ac.uk)

27. Developments, Prospects & Threats
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28. Thank you
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