Growing Old Gracefully

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Growing Old Gracefully

• OZeCulture 2001

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Overview

• Types of content
• Layers of support
• Strategies for Archives
• Strategies for Artists

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Digital content?

• Tapes and discs
• Video and Audio Formats
• Digital Betacam DCT 10-bit component 422
• Digital Audio Tape 44.1 or 48 kHz 16-bit PCM
• Compact Discs, DVD
• Red-book Audio 44.1 kHz 16-bit PCM,
• Yellow-book CD-ROM
• Book A video, Book B DVD-ROM
• Format obsolescence

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Video and Audio
Software
firmware
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New media

• Still image and graphics files
• Still images bitmaps, tif, gif, jpeg
• CG vectors, object-based
• Audio moving image streams or files
• .mov, MPEG, aiff, wav 44.1 kHz 16-bit PCM, mp3
• Mixed media, projects OMF, AAF
• Web pages, text
• Screenshows, kiosks, games

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Binary meaning
1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1
1 00110010 Binary 12832161 128643282
1 32162 Decimal 177 235 50 ASCII
ë 2 RGB MIDI Note
on c² Note off
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Bitmaps
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Objects
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Strategies for Archives

• Hardware support
• Software support, emulation
• Migration and transcoding

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Emulation
Plug-ins
Application
Plug-ins
Op System
Application
Emulation
Op System
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Emulation
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Strategies for Artists

• What do you want to save?
• Standard, open, non-proprietary formats
• Documentation

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Multimedia Experience
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The Future

• Universal formats?
• Standards?
• documentation
• Beyond binary?