-Jeff Pearson
>I work in the area of mathematics education and we have a large
>collection of video tapes (high 8 and vhs) of classroom teaching and
>teacher and student artifacts (notebooks of various sorts) from
>'89-'90 that we use for research, workshops, and for instruction -
>we have also been accumulating other video in the last few years
>(mainly mini-DV). So we have three primary concerns: how to preserve
>the early materials, how to preserve the later materials, and how to
>make the materials available (some good working representation of
>the contents but not the originals). We have some knowledge about
>the last (mainly digitizing and have been doing some work around
>this - but even that has tradeoffs which we are still exploring),
>but few about the first (and are hoping if we do a good job on the
>first and third, the second will fall somewhat in line). For
>example, there has been some discussion about effectively
>re-mastering our earlier data within some digital media - but the
>most reasonable way (or even what it would mean to be reasonable) of
>doing this is not obvious. Anyway, we are a bit like fish out of
>water (smile).
> At the moment we are in the process of making a proposal to NSF
>who definitely has an interest in this (although more, I think, from
>the viewpoint of dissemination), and we are in need of some pointers
>(and names of people/organizations who are involved in similar
>concerns) toward some rational ways of taking all this on.
>
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jeffrey W. Pearson Phone: (734) 763-3758 Librarian, Film & Video Library Fax: (734) 764-7087 University of Michigan e-mail: jwpearso@umich.edu Shapiro Library, Room 2178 919 S. University Ann Arbor MI 48109-1185