DVRescue: Project Conclusions & Future Work (AMIA, Fall 2021)
Channel: Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound
Date: 2021-11-19

PRESENTERS
Libby Savage Hopfauf, MIPoPS
Dave Rice, CUNY/RiceCapades
Andrew Weaver, University of Washington Libraries

SESSION ABSTRACT
DV videotape formats face an exceptional obsolescence risk. Falling in-between professional expertise in file-based digital preservation and analog videotape digitization, DV tapes are best preserved by migrating the data from the tape into a file rather than handling them as a video digitization event. This panel will review the past two years of work on the DVRescue project. Funded by the NEH, DVRescue worked to research DV preservation and create new tools and documentation to facilitate the efficient transfer of data from tape to file. The presenters will demonstrate current versions of the tool, research conclusions, methods for troubleshooting, as well as how they will utilize findings to inform future work.

PRESENTATION LINKS
DVRescue GitHub repository - https://github.com/mipops/dvrescue
DVRescue Daily builds - https://mediaarea.net/DVRescue
Final DVRescue documentation (dvguidance) - https://mipops.github.io/dvrescue/
Current DVRescue working documentation - (https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/14sKKGQ3pr5g43Po5PNwBOTKINGqHETF-
Digital Video Commander GitHub respository - https://github.com/mipops/digividcommander
Final Digital Video Commander documentation - https://mipops.github.io/digividcommander/
MIPoPS DVRescue project page - https://www.mipops.org/dvrescue/
Weaver's presentation slides - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12saHwoHPj7kytz9C_3O5waQ79Z6b_63K/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104517147398616916610&rtpof=true&sd=true