DCC Case Study: PrestoSpace: Preservation towards storage and access. Standardised Practices for Audiovisual Contents in Europe

Abstract

Explicit strategies are needed to manage ‘mixed’ audio visual (AV) archives that contain both analogue and digital materials. The PrestoSpace Project brings together industry leaders, research institutes, and other stakeholders at a European level, to provideproducts and services for effective automated preservation and access solutions for diverse AV collections. The Project’s main objective is to develop and promote flexible, integrated and affordable services for AV preservation, restoration, and storage with a view to enabling migration to digital formats in AV archives.