Digital Video Preservation: Further Challenges for Preserving Digital Video and Beyond. Killian Escobedo. The Signal. August 16, 2011.
Standards for preserving and maintaining digital video are now emerging. For archives, a sustainable video file format must either be loss-less or uncompressed. There are efforts to establish the Motion JPEG2000 video codec and MXF wrapper as the preservation target format for digital video. But the codec has been widely adopted, which makes it difficult to support the format for preservation purposes. There are also other digital video preservation challenges, such as video files that are part of larger multimedia objects, like CD-ROMs, DVDs and websites. Other workflows and tools will have to be developed. Preserving digital video files on CD-ROMs, DVDs, and such will require new metadata schema and strategies.
"Currently, the Archives is looking at screen capture software as a potential means of recording how a CD-ROM functions and links to other material before software and hardware obsolescence renders the content unplayable. A similar method can be employed for capturing the navigational structure of DVD menus and Flash-based websites". Once the object cannot play on regular equipment, it will require recreating environments with obsolete hardware, software, and operating systems.
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