1. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Building an Interim Digital Preservation System Nancy Silver Digital Archival Program Manager Science and Technology Council ©AMPAS

2. Today’s Discussion The Academy and The Council Current Council Projects The Digital Archival Framework Project StEM Case Study Issues Next Steps

3. About the Academy >6,000 members in 33 countries 15 branches, plus at large/associate members Staff of 250 3 buildings Academy Film Archive Margaret Herrick Library Grants, public programs and more….

4. Academy Mission To advance the art and sciences of motion pictures To recognize outstanding achievements To provide a common forum and meeting ground for branches and crafts To represent the viewpoint of the actual creators of the motion picture

5. Academy Facilities

6. Inside the Academy

7. Coming ….

8. About the Council The Council: 25 Academy members Four standing subcommittees: Technology History Public Programs & Education Advanced Technology Programs Research Council Advisory Group: Studio CTOs Staff of 9 plus interns Project committees: over 200 volunteers

9. Research Not about solving any particular problem Work that leads (or may lead ) to improvements in the theatrical audience experience First project: CineGrid Calit2 iRODS Researcher

10. Advanced Technology Program Collaborative technical problem solving Establish usable specifications and best practices, then bring them to SMPTE for standardization Image Interchange Framework Digital Motion Picture Camera Assessment Digital Archival Framework Project

11. Council Technical Resources Esmeralda™ Easel Stella Stage Dalsa Evolution 4K Cameras Custom spectral densitometer CouncilNet

12. Image Interchange Framework The Problem: interchanging motion picture images between post production facilities is very hard: the pictures don’t look right IIF: A framework specification and open source implementation that addresses color management and file formats for today’s hybrid digital motion picture workflows A portable software programming language designed specifically for color transforms. Reference transforms to convert between IIF-defined encoding schemes A set of reference images and calibration targets for film scanners and recorders Documentation on the architecture and software tools Merges with NDIIPP effort because digital preservation requires digital format standards

13. The Digital Dilemma

14. The Motion Picture Industry is Changing Digital technologies bring many benefits: Better sound quality Visual effect and animation not possible with film More creative choices with “digital mastering” More efficient and higher quality theatrical presentation Digital Cinematography provides immediately viewable images and longer “takes” Film is 100 year-old technology and works very well Capture, release prints, long term archiving

15. The Motion Picture Industry is Changing Digital technologies bring many challenges: Very difficult to manage large volumes of digital objects Security issues Current metadata standards need to be customized for digital motion picture materials Lack of simple archiving software tools for digital motion picture materials Data migration problems Software incompatibility Storage costs

16. Digital Archival Framework Project Case-study system for preserving digital motion picture materials Requirements document that focuses on the digital preservation needs of the independent filmmaker and smaller film archives Image data format specification, development and standardization for motion pictures Education and outreach Research

17. Current Academy Metadata Initiatives Established a key project committee consisting of key metadata specialists throughout the world Provide recommendations for technical and preservation metadata standards for digital motion picture materials 2009 Digital Motion Picture Metadata Symposium

18. Case-study system for preserving digital motion picture materials

19. StEM Case Study “Process” the collection Develop interim preservation strategy and infrastructure  Bit-level preservation  Essence-level preservation  Evaluate and choose metadata schema  Probably not the reference design Publish findings

20. The Collection for the Case Study

21. The Collection

24. The Content Audit Process

25. Hardware Architecture

26. Software Collection Manager (UI, Catalog Database) Storage Subsystem (Cloud, Local Management) Local Storage CineGrid Object Repository (Media, Access Services)

27. Software

28. The Role of Metadata

29. Issues Identifying the collection Data migration Media management and repository software Metadata schemas Q&A and technology Staffing

30. Next Steps Continued content audit Restoration of a few corrupted files Continued software development Cataloging of the StEM collection Ingest of the StEM collection Management of the StEM collection Case study documentation

31. Questions and Answers Thank you! Science & Technology Council ©AMPAS