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Today is World Digital Preservation Day and time for my annual reminder (with a new graphic) that #Digitisation is not #DigitalPreservation. A thread 1/5 #WDPD2022 
Regardless of whether a file is created by digitising a physical item or originally created in a digital format (#borndigital), it requires active management over time to ensure continued access - it requires digital preservation 2/5
#DigiPres and #Digitization are closley entwined, with good practice to create digitised files in uncompressed, open file formats suitable for long-term preservation 3/5
Thread: a day in the life of @BFI National Archive #digipres using #FOSS @FFmpeg @MediaArea_Net #RAWcooked @MatroskaOrg to 1) preserve and 2) (yay) save cash...
Yesterday was a normalish day, oceans of data swilling around the digipres network, some servers working, some busted, some scripts working, some silently failing, some loudly failing. It’s ok, we have smart and caring human stewards to take care of this.
Anyway, we use #RAWCooked to convert our #DPX to #FFV1 #Matroska, and we use @FFmpeg to do the same for videotape digitisation, V210 MOVs to FFV1_MKVs..
Up next is Jane de Gruchy from South West Heritage Trust talking about their digital preservation system #DigiWithIt
SWHT is an independent charitable trust
Began accepting archives in digital form at SWHT in early 1990s. Survey of carrier media in 2013, survey of digital & a/v in 2017 #DigiWithIt
