The Future of Memory: A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive - Brossura

Jones, Jimi; Jancovic, Marek

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ISBN 10: 0252088751 ISBN 13: 9780252088759

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2025

Riassunto

A new generation of video standards promises lossless storage of digital objects for future generations. Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic document the development and adoption of JPEG 2000, FFV1, MXF, and Matroska while investigating the social and material aspects of their design and the forces driving their journeys from niche to ubiquity.

Drawing on interviews with archivists and developers, Jones and Jancovic reveal the archive as a dynamic space where deeply entrenched social practices produce disagreements but also resourceful collaborations. They contrast the unprecedented rise of archivist-driven standardization and controversies around non-standard technology with the historical dominance of the film and broadcast industries. Throughout, the authors clarify the role of tech companies, software developers, film pirates, hackers, and other players with poorly understood roles in the process.

A timely look at the state of audiovisual preservation, The Future of Memory provides a history of recent innovations alongside a snapshot of a field in the midst of profound technological change.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Jimi Jones is an adjunct lecturer of library and information sciences for the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Marek Jancovic is an assistant professor of media studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of A Media Epigraphy of Video Compression: Reading Traces of Decay.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0252088751
• ISBN 13: 9780252088759
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 216
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile