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Video Art / Media Art Preservation: Sudies and Suggestions THE DANISH VIDEO ART DATA BANK |
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Video Art / Media Art Preservation: Sudies and Suggestions THE DANISH VIDEO ART DATA BANK |
Do each of us know what the
other talks about when we discuss video tape preservation and restoration? When someone
for example use the term “cinching” and another one talk about
“flagging” or “curvature error” and
do you know what the “vinegar syndrome” is?
To overcome this problem and
to assist the BAVC Video preservation Round Table Working Working Group in 1995-1996
Rebecca Bachman from Stanford University developed a ”Glossary of Terms” which
you can download from http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/bavc/bavcterm.html .
Rebecca Bachman stress that the glossary “should be
considered a working document” and she expresses the hope that the glossary “can
help take us a step towards the implementation of a system of centralised information
which utilises the terms that describe what we see (or don’t see) when viewing a tape
on our video monitor”,
… and this lead us to the next passage: the question of a common strategy.