Mike Casey Research Collection

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    Media Preservation and Digitization Principles
    (2022-03-29) Casey, Mike
    Media Preservation and Digitization Principles offers a thorough set of principles, along with a number of associated policies and practices, for entities developing or assessing media preservation programs. The document also provides working principles for audio and/or video digitization operations. It draws on both Indiana University's Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative and the expertise of a number of practitioners in recommending basic principles that support accurate and enduring work in these areas.
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    Introduction to Workflow
    (Unpublished, 2022) Casey, Mike
    This unpublished work provides a definition of the idea of a workflow, defining components and identifying characteristics that are part of this conceptual notion. It further explores the purpose of workflows and suggests a few attributes of an effective workflow, while highlighting the importance of transformations and the roles played by workflow inputs and outputs.
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    Quality Control for Media Digitization Projects
    (IASA Journal, 2019-08-07) Casey, Mike
    This article defines types of quality control and explores risk management strategies that are broadly applicable to any organization engaged in media digitization for long-term preservation. It uses the quality control system for audio and video digitization that was developed by Indiana University’s Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative to provide examples and illustrations of these ideas.
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    Sound Directions: Best Practices for Audio Preservation
    (2007) Casey, Mike; Gordon, Bruce
    Sound Directions: Best Practices for Audio Preservation is the report from a joint Indiana University (IU)/Harvard University (HU) technical archiving project to define and test best practices in this space. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities with additional funding from IU and HU, Sound Directions spanned three grant projects from 2005-2011. The best practices report was issued in 2007, became one of the standard works in the field, and was used extensively in the US with significant international use as well. Expertise and experience gained from Sound Directions fed directly into IU's Media Digitization and Preservation project that ran from 2015-2021.
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    Degralescence, Prince Codec, and the Kingdom of Media
    (IASA Journal, 2019-08-07) Casey, Mike
    This fanciful media preservation fairy tale chronicles Prince Codec's search for the Sword of Migration, with which to join the evil twin-headed monster Degralescence in a battle for the survival of the Kingdom of Media.
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    Why Media Preservation Can't Wait: The Gathering Storm
    (IASA Journal, 2015-01) Casey, Mike
    This article, published in the IASA Journal in 2015, explores the forces at work in the degradation of archival audio and video collections as well as the obsolescence of their formats. This includes the increasing scarcity of both playback machines and spare parts as well as the human expertise needed to use them. The combination of the two results in a limited window of opportunity in which to digitize archival audio and video for long-term preservation. The article outlines Indiana University's response to this crisis and highlights progress at other academic institutions.