AMI Resource list

Professional Organizations

• Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA)
  
  • AMIA GitHub for Analog Inspection
  • The Home Film Preservation Guide sponsored by AMIA
  • Identifying and Handling Nitrate Film
• Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)
  
  • ARSC Guide to Audio Preservation
• SAA-AMI listserv
• International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA)
  • Handling and Storage of Audio and Video Carriers

Helpful Guides

• California Audiovisual Preservation Project (California Revealed) Audiovisual Formats: A Guide to Identification

• Texas Commission on the Arts Videotape Identification and Assessment Guide

• Preservation Self-Assessment Program Collection ID Guide-Audiovisual Media

• Northeast Document Conservation Center Fundamentals of AV Preservation

• Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Magnetic Tape Storage and Handling Guide

• National Archives Preservation by Media Type: Audio, Video, and Motion Picture Film and Archival Formats: Glossary of Terms

• National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) The Film Preservation Guide

Supportive Services

• PBCore Controlled Vocabularies

• Scene Savers Film Footage Calculator

• Image Permanence Institute (IPI), Rochester Institute of Technology IPI Media Storage Quick Reference

• Columbia University AVDb: Audio and Moving Image Survey Tool

• Community Archiving Workshop

Inventory and Rating Tools

• MediaScore MediaRIVERS - IU (Media Research and Instructional Value Evaluation and Ranking System) - software guides assessment for value of media holdings.

• Catalyst Inventory System - AVP - a solution for the creation of better inventories and the management of digitization workflows.

• AVCC - AVP an open-source web application for the rapid inventory of physical film, video, and audio materials.

Description

• ArchivesSpace migration tools