Index:

• Preface
• Presentation
• Involvment with preservation
• Preserving old video tapes
• Montevideo criteria
• Guggenheim initiative
• Case study: Paik's TV Garden
• Case studies: Torben Soeborg
• Moral and copyright questions
• Guggenheim steps
• Obsolescence rating of tapes
• Degradation problems
• What can go wrong?
• Our concern
• Definition of terms
• Passive or active damage prevention
• Passive preservation
• Storage
• Active preparations
• Magnetic tape degradation
• Tape analysis/evaluation & inspection
• Basic priority planning
• What can be done? Professional help/examples
• What is done?
• Glossery of terms
• Wanted: A common strategy
• Guggenheim Questionnaire
• Artist's intent / archives' intent
• Emulation strategy
• Catalogues & ISAN Standard
• Some questions to discuss
• Links / Bibliography