Organisations Flashcards

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# What is... **BAVC**

Answer 1

* Bay Area Video Coalition. is a community hub and resource for media makers in the Bay Area and across the country, serving over 7,500 freelancers, film-makers, job-seekers, activists, and artists every year. * BAVC provides access to media making technology, storytelling workshops, a diverse and engaged community of makers and producers, services and resources. * BAVC advocates for those whose stories aren't being told, and provides the resources for anyone to create and share, and amplify their stories and those of their communities. * BAVC's diverse, innovative programs lead the field in media training for youth and educators, technology and multimedia focused workforce development, visually-driven new media storytelling and audio-visual preservation. * One of the nation’s longest-standing non-profit video and audio preservation organizations, BAVC is a leader in the field, developing the highest quality preservation standards and practices while working with individuals and cultural, academic, and media organizations to meet a range of needs for preserving historically and artistically important video and audio materials.

Answer 2

* Preserving digital Objects with Restricted Resources. * From 2012-2014, the Digital POWRR Project, an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded study investigated, evaluated, and recommended scalable, sustainable digital preservation solutions for libraries with smaller amounts of data and/or fewer resources. * The project realized that many information professionals felt overwhelmed by the scope of the problem. Team members created a workshop curriculum based off the findings of the study and it has since been delivered to many institutions across the States. * POWRR created the digital preservation tool grid, now maintained in collaboration with the COPTR tool registry.

Answer 3

Artefactual Systems develops free and open software made available under the AGPLv3 open-source software license. The software and user community is supported through release management, public technical and user documentation, and community forum support. To pay the bills, and to continue to develop and update the software, paid services are also offered. Artefactual are responsible for the **Archivematica** (digital preservation) and **Access to Memory** (archival description) systems.

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A UK based data archiving solution with a high level of reported integrity. Arkivum offer digital preservation guidance and have collaborated with systems such as Archivematica to provide digital preservation solutions.

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* Deutsches Institut für Normung (German Institute for Standardization) * Responsible, for example, for DIN 31644 'Criteria for trustworthy digital archives'

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The Library of Congress Preservation Metadata activity responsible for the international metadata standard, also called PREMIS, which is designed to support the long-term preservation, and usability, of digital objects.

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Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Authorisation Body Ltd. Responsible for three ISO standards related to establishing an internationally recognises and certified set of trustworthy digital repositories. * **ISO 14721:2012** also known as CCSDS 650.0-M-2 (OAIS – a reference model for what is required for an archive to provide long-term preservation of digital information) * **ISO 16363:2013** also known as CCSDS 652.0-M-1 (Audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories – sets out comprehensive metrics for what an archive must do, based on OAIS) * **ISO 16919:2014** also known as CCSDS 652.1-M-2 (Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of candidate trustworthy digital repositories – specifies the competencies and requirements on auditing bodies)

Answer 8

* International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental international organization responsible for creating standards that support innovation and provide solutions to global challenges. * Made up of 163 national standards bodies. * ISO standards are specifications for products, services and systems, to ensure quality, safety and efficiency. They are instrumental in facilitating international trade. * ISO headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland.

Answer 9

UNESCO is responsible for coordinating international cooperation in education, science, culture and communication. It strengthens the ties between nations and societies, and mobilizes the wider public so that each child and citizen: * has access to quality education; a basic human right and an indispensable prerequisite for sustainable development; * may grow and live in a cultural environment rich in diversity and dialogue, where heritage serves as a bridge between generations and peoples; * can fully benefit from scientific advances; * and can enjoy full freedom of expression; the basis of democracy, development and human dignity. UNESCO creates initiatives, and provides guidance, central to maintaining digital archives as part of their mission.

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World Wide Web (W3) Consortium. Responsible for a large body of the Internet’s Standards, including HTML and PNG specifications, and RDF. The W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web.

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Not strictly an organisation involved in digital preservation per se, their involvement in the standards for TIFF, XML, and PDF, means that their name will come up often enough. Adobe Systems Incorporated are based in San Jose California, and are also responsible for software such as Adobe Photoshop.

Answer 12

Provides support for the Apache Community of open-source software projects, which provide software products for the public good. By collaborative consensus based processes, an open, pragmatic software license and a desire to create high quality software. Not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers and users.

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