Literaturtipp: Tom de Smet Harm Jan Triemstra "Film Scanning Considerations" ( 2011 )

Sound and Vision archives and offers access to a huge collection of film material that can be divided into two distinct parts. The first part of the collection covers broadcast film material of a period from roughly 1955 to 1989 with a total volume estimated at 25.000 hours. On the other hand a lot of national heritage film material of non-broadcast nature is also home to Sound and Vision’s vaults, ranging from 8 mm to 35 mm nitrate film. Within the “Images for the Future” programme about 17.500 hours of material from these film collections must be digitised by mid 2014. On average this amounts to a production of 3.000 hours a year.

The main challenge Sound and Vision faces is to find the optimal balance between production volume, available budget, time constraints, quality and present and future archival, preservation, access and repurposing requirements. A choice in the digitisation approach and formats will always be a trade-off between these factors. Also, the availability of standards and capabilities of market solutions have to be taken into account.