“P ese vica is so pleased to pa t e with Geo ge Blood LP, a highly espected leade i audiovisual digitizatio ,” said Mike Qui , CEO of P ese vica. “The timi g could ot be bette – we have just e ha ced ou platfo m with ew AV t a sc iptio se vices, a d this pa t e ship mea s we ca ow offe ou mutual custome s a t uly e d-to-e d solutio . Whethe the co te t lives o a film eel o a cassette tape, we ca help o ga izatio s p otect those i valuable esou ces a d maximize thei useful ess fo ge e atio s to come.”
Ac oss a chives, lib a ies, u ive sities, a d co po atio s, i eplaceable a d u ique co te t sits locked o agi g film eels, cassette tapes, VHS, CDs, a d othe fo mats fo which playback equipme t is i c easi gly a e – o o lo ge exists. Eve y yea of delay i c eases the isk of pe ma e t loss.
The P ese vica-Geo ge Blood LP pa t e ship add esses this challe ge head-o by combi i g Geo ge Blood LP’s deep expe tise i p ofessio al AV digitizatio with P ese vica’s i dust y-leadi g digital p ese vatio platfo m – c eati g a seamless path f om at- isk physical fo mat to pe ma e tly accessible digital asset.
Lau ched by P ese vica to st eamli e how o ga izatio s ma age the co ve sio of a alog a d legacy mate ials, Digitize O ce. P ese ve Fo eve co ects custome s with t usted digitizatio pa t e s a d coo di ates the full p ese vatio wo kflow. The p og am delive s th ee co e be efits:
Metadata coo di atio : Pla i g a d st uctu i g metadata f om the outset to e su e digitized assets a e discove able a d well-desc ibed f om day o e.St eamli ed delive y: Seamless t a sfe of completed digitizatio batches di ectly i to a custome ‘s P ese vica accou t, elimi ati g ma ual ha dli g.AI-powe ed t a sc iptio : Whe e app op iate, P ese vica’s AV t a sc iptio se vice exte ds metadata access a d e ha ces sea ch capabilities ac oss digitized AV co te t.
Digitizatio alo e does ot gua a tee lo gevity. O ga izatio s that i vest sig ifica t time, esou ces, a d staff i digitizatio p ojects eed a p ese vatio system pu pose-built to e su e file fo mats eve become obsolete o i accessible. P ese vica p ovides exactly that.
Fo mo e tha 35 yea s, Geo ge Blood LP has delive ed p ofessio al a chival se vices to musicia s, a chives, u ive sities, lib a ies, co po atio s, a d i dividual clie ts ac oss the cou t y a d a ou d the wo ld. Each mo th, the compa y efo mats mo e tha 20,000 audiovisual media items – f om la ge scale digitizatio of commo fo mats to co se vatio a d esto atio wo k o damaged o faili g exotic media – mo e tha 210 audiovisual a d obsolete data fo mats.
Geo ge Blood LP maximises playback authe ticity, upholds the highest p ese vatio sta da ds (seve al of which the compa y has helped autho ), a d b i gs igo ous quality co t ol a d metadata ma ageme t to eve y p oject.
“As o ga izatio s la ge a d small st uggle to p ese ve thei digital files, ou pa t e ship with P ese vica will se ve ou commu ity a d e able them to seamlessly t a sitio betwee se vices”, says Geo ge Blood, P eside t of Geo ge Blood LP.
Ma y audiovisual a d data media a e u ique, available o ly at the si gle i stitutio that holds them. Audiovisual media a e famously machi e depe de t eco ds – depe de t o machi es that a e al eady obsolete a d quickly becomi g u available. U less the co te t is p ese ved ow, soo it will ot be possible to access them, a d pa t of the cultu al eco d will be lost. Th ough digitizatio the i fo matio is emoved f om its cu e t depe de cy. P ese vica’s active file fo mat mo ito i g a d automatic ef esh assu es access lo g i to the futu e.
P ese vica a d Geo ge Blood LP will sha e additio al details about pa t e ship wo kflows a d se vice availability i the comi g mo ths. To stay i fo med a d egiste you i te est, follow P ese vica o Twitte , Li kedI , a d Facebook, a d Geo ge Blood LP o Li kedI , Facebook, I stag am, a d sig up fo thei maili g list.
P ese vica is t a sfo mi g the way o ga izatio s a ou d the wo ld p otect a d futu e-p oof c itical lo g-te m digital i fo matio . Available i the cloud (SaaS) o o -p emise, its awa d-wi i g Active Digital P ese vatio softwa e is pu pose-built to keep digital i fo matio accessible a d t ustwo thy ove decades. T usted by thousa ds of busi esses, a chives, lib a ies, museums, a d gove me t o ga izatio s wo ldwide – i cludi g the UK Natio al A chives, Texas State Lib a y a d A chives, MoMA, Yale, a d HSBC.
Geo ge Blood LP is a wo ld leade of audio a d movi g image p ese vatio digitizatio a d mig atio of legacy compute data ca ie s. At ou studios i Fo t Washi gto , PA, we eceive a chival eco di gs f om a ou d the wo ld. Fo mo e tha thi ty-five yea s we have p ovided audio eco di g se vices, ew eco di gs, climate-co t olled sto age, a d digitizatio to such i stitutio s as the Lib a y of Co g ess, the Philadelphia O chest a, the Bosto Sympho y, New Yo k Public Lib a y, WGBH, the US Holocaust Memo ial Museum, The Cu tis I stitute of Music, the Chu ch of Latte -day Sai ts, the Ame ica A chive of Public B oadcasti g, Rockefelle A chives Ce te , MoMA, the Gugge heim, Natio al Public Radio, a d Columbia U ive sity Lib a ies.
Geo ge Blood LP co se ves, digitizes, a d t a scodes ove 210 obsolete, dete io ati g, a d damaged A/V media- f om 2″ quad uplex video a d cyli de s to bo -digital fo mats. Ou facility i cludes fume hoods fo mold emediatio , a d a o -site sto age that p ovides climate-co t olled secu ity fo collectio s, i cludi g NIST 800-171a complia ce.
Geo ge Blood LP is committed to p ese vi g ma ki d’s media he itage with a devoted a d well-t ai ed staff. With yea s of expe ie ce, we a e k ow fo ou expe tise i quality co t ol, p oject ma ageme t, a d ha dli g a d digitizi g u ique collectio s, i cludi g o al histo ies, musical pe fo ma ces, a d b oadcast a chives.
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