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Last updated: 06 June 2024
These archiving guides and technical workflows are designed to help people with different goals and different skill levels. If there is a topic you want to know about, but the information is not contained on these pages, feel free to reach out to us at PARADISEC{:target="_blank"} and we will do our best to help.
*If you are just starting out and would like to know how to begin the process of archiving with PARADISEC these guides can help you get your materials in order.*
- How to become a PARADISEC user
- How to become a PARADISEC depositor (How to start a new collection with PARADISEC)
- Archiving materials that come from analogue sources vs archiving born-digital materials
- File-naming requirements for PARADISEC
- File formats we accept
- File-naming requirements for PARADISEC
- Metadata entry with PARADISEC-formatted spreadsheets
- Metadata entry with LaMeta
*The following guides offer suggestions for when you are creating content for archiving. This includes suggested camera/audio recorder settings when you are recording in the field, or instructions for those who are looking to digitise text material such as field notebooks.*
PARADISEC{:target="_blank"} adheres to the current best-practice standards for audio and video archiving as set by the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA){:target="_blank"}.
- Standard archival formats
- Camera settings (frame rate, file formats)
- Audio settings (sample and bit rates)
- Recorders
- Photo stands/tripods and lighting
- Remote capture using computer and camera
- Post-production processing of images
*If you are interested in audio-visual processing these guides can help.*
- Digitising audio cassette tapes
- Digitising reel-to-reel tapes
- Resampling audio to meet PARADISEC archiving standards
- Creating stereo track from mono track
- Quickly make batch changes to video or audio files
- Transcode videos with settings not available in Adobe ME presets
- Handle video with problematic properties
- Free, open source video transcoding tool
- Uses FFMpeg libraries "under the hood"
- Simple GUI with many presets to choose or customise
- Create lossless JPEG2000 .MXF video files for archiving with PARADISEC (archival copy)
- Create well-formed .MP4s for access copies or fit-for-purpose copies
- Handle video with problematic properties for lossless MXF format
- Add quality checking into your workflow
- Explore software including MediaArea{:target="_blank"}'s open source suite of tools
- Check both audio and video files
*CoEDL has released a set of [guidelines](http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/publications-and-seminars/centre-publications/creating-captions-guidelines/){:target="_blank"} for improving communication access for deaf and hard of hearing people. This page offers a simple but effect workflow for integrating captioning and/or sign laguage interpreting.*
- General tips for improving communication access
- Ideas for captioning video presentations, both during and after an event
- Tips on organising & working with a sign language interpreter
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Development of this documentation was generously funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language{:target="_blank"} (CoEDL)
This work was created by Julia Colleen Miller and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License{:target="_blank"}.
