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ninch-announce: Universal Preservation Format User Survey

Universal Preservation Format User Survey

David Green (david@ninch.org)
Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:21:46 -0500 

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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:21:46 -0500
To: ninch-announce@cni.org
From: david@ninch.org (David Green)
Subject: Universal Preservation Format User Survey

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
October 29, 1997


                        UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION FORMAT
                           NEEDS ASSESSMENT SURVEY

The UPF Project is eager to incorporate the needs of potential users into
the development of a platform-independent Universal Preservation Format
that will ensure the accessibility of a wide range of data types, but
especially video formats, into the future.  To do this the project has
devised a survey to canvas the needs of a range of potential users. The
survey, along with information about the UPF is available at
<http://info.wgbh.org/upf>.


David Green

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The Universal Preservation Format User Survey is now available on-line via
the UPF homepage: http://info.wgbh.org/upf

Anyone involved or interested in digital archives or digital libraries is
welcome to fill out this form. The information collected from this survey
will be presented at the next meeting of the Society of Motion Picture and
Television Engineers (SMPTE) Study Group for the Universal Preservation
Format will be held on Tuesday, December 9, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Sony
Corporation in San Jose, CA.

It is crucial that those who establish technical standards hear from those
who will be most affected by them. Our proposed standard will not only have
an impact on video and film collections, but on all materials that are
digitized for the purpose of preservation.

To access our survey, just click on the "User Survey" link on our homepage,
fill out the form, and click on the "Submit" button at the bottom of the
page. You will then be prompted to return to the UPF homepage. If you
haven't had the opportunity to look at the information on this site, please
think about doing so now. In particular, download some of our colorful
presentations in Adobe Acrobat format.

If you have trouble accessing our survey or web pages, please send me email
at thom_shepard@wgbh.org .

Thom Shepard
UPF Project Coordinator
WGBH-Boston

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The UPF project is sponsored by the WGBH Educational Foundation and funded
in part by a grant (97-029) from the National Historical Publications and
Records Commission of the National Archives for the purpose of advocating
"the need for  a platform-independent Universal Preservation Format,
designed specifically for digital technologies, that will ensure the
accessibility of a wide range of data types into the indefinite future."

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David L. Green
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
www-ninch.cni.org
david@ninch.org
202/296-5346                                  202/872-0886 fax

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