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.