Born Digital, Live Well

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The challenges of video archiving inescapably entered the realm of IT problems once cameras stopped recording to tape or film and instead began writing to filesystems. These challenges are non-trivial: the storage needs for video data are significant and the data does not self-index: descriptive metadata needs to be generated by the camera operators and others on the production side of operations. Without the metadata, the video can’t be found and recalled and so archival systems are an essential component of long-term storage expenses. The Instructional Media Resources team at CITL has been grappling with the challenges of digital video archiving for over a decade and has begun implementing a sustainable, low-cost solution.