This news article was published in the ArtBeat Autumn 2008 magazine. The writer was Jaelle Bajada. Copyright Commonwealth of Australia reproduced by permission.
It gives you a bit of an insight as to what preservation CAAMA is currently undertaking and what we have accomplished.
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CAAMA library has had a lot of visitors from all over Australia. Here are just Two of the letters of recommendations that we have received as to what we are accomplishing here at CAAMA.
CAAMA Library are constantly migrating old media to the newer formats for preservation. We currently are starting a new project of migrating our oldest Betacam metal oxide tapes to uncompressed betacam SP format.
Down the track we are looking at migrating all of our footage into DATA formats for long term preservation and access. We will be using the SAMMA system ( System for Automated Migration of Media Archives )But until suffient funding is found, we are preserving the oldest videos to Sp’s.
We have digitised 400 Radio archival tapes (audio) to date and are constantly working at finalising the 700 that are yet to be done. This is a slow and ongoing process.
The CAAMA Library is an Audio Visual library.
We house 10,000 videos in various formats that date back to the begining of CAAMA in 1980. Every year we add new video’s to our collection. It is constantly expanding.
We also house the Original Music Tape reels from music recordings dating back to the 1980′s.
Also have about 1000 1/4 ” radio reels which we are in the process of digitising as they too date back to the beginning of CAAMA in 1980.
Our collections vary greatly. From Archival Languages and life stories on both Audio and Video. Peoples dream-time stories and community stories are captured on film for preservation.
We keep our collection in a climatically controlled environment to preserve the Audio and video from degrading until we can transfer to Digital format. Which we hope to start to do in the near future.
