As Go Document Formats, So Goes Video

Posted by Andy_Updegrove on Dec 23, 2007 8:29 AM EDT
ConsortiumInfo.org Standards Blog; By Andy Updegrove
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For a few years now we've been reading about the urgency of adopting open document formats to preserve our written records and heritage. Now, a 74 page report from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences warns that digital films are as vulnerable to loss as digitized documents, but vastly more expensive to preserve - as much as $208,569 per year.

The reasons are the same for video as for documents: magnetic media degrade quickly, and formats continue to be created and abandoned. If this sounds familiar and worrisome, it should. We are rushing pell mell into a future where we only focus on the exciting benefits of new technologies without considering the qualities of older technologies that are equally important - such as preservation - that may be lost or fatally compromised when we migrate to a new whiz-bang technology.

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