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Meeting 26/11/2010

Equipment – 2 SAMMA digitising machines arrived and were placed in the music room where they will stay for the duration – 2 cleaning machines arrived and will be placed in the archive room where they will stay for the duration -2 VHS machines were brought from RMIT and placed into the SAMMA -1 Umatic machine was brought from RMIT and placed into the SAMMA – 1 small vacuum cleaner was purchased by Kim – most of the consumables needed by Kim have been purchased – SAMMA needs to be customized: 1. metadata fields changed 2. … David Carlin will talk to Jamie Thom, Adrian miles and DAMSmart about this work which will take place this week. – the only major item still to be purchased is the transport discs for carrying the data to and from RMIT – there may be issues with heat in the music room. Continue reading

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PhD scholarship

Your Expression of Interest (two pages) should include the following information: Why you are interested in the position Academic Qualifications (include years of enrolment, date completed or expected to complete, name of institution, Hons and/or Masters level of award if applicable) Professional Experience – provide details (including duration) of any professional experience, previous and current, relevant to your application. You can also include relevant professional development such as workshops and conferences Publication Details and/or Folio – if you have authored, exhibited or produced works relevant to your application please provide full details of the publication or exhibition including level of authorship, extent of involvement and whether the work was refereed, assessed or judged. Continue reading

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Video Tests

Compression software estimates that 1 hour of video = 880MB Clip Two Video: H.264, 24 frames per second, automatic (natural) keyframes, data rate restricted to 1000 kbits/sec and multipass encoding enabled. 720 x 405 pixels (16:9) Audio: MPEG4 Low Delay AAC, 48.00 kHz. … Compression software estimates that 1 hour of video = 439MB Clip Three Video: H.264, 24 frames per second, automatic (natural) keyframes, data rate restricted to 800 kbits/sec and multipass encoding enabled. 360 x 202 pixels (16:9) Audio: MPEG4 Low Delay AAC, 48.000 kHz. Continue reading

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Meeting Notes, October 29 2010

Trish/Kim contact DAMSmart for costing on storage of master files for life of project ie3years (preference) , and for intervals 6 months , 12 months , 18 months etc if 3 year costs prohibitive.

… Adrian to test variety of web video compression programs for suitability as project application and report back for next meeting if possible Continue reading

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Archive, Digitisation, MetaData

All: meeting 2pm Fri 29 October to discuss what has been learnt at the training and to further refine the metadata and workflow (JM will not be there – assume it is in room 9.2.14)

… All to discuss in greater detail the list of equipment needed for smooth operation e.g.: a hard drive at Circus Oz, portable data storage units to carry the information to its various storage homes
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To Do List 02

All: write 500 writes and send to David by October 1. Continue reading

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Writing

As a prompt or proposition for all to write to: The living video archive as an interdisciplinary problem The aim is for each of us to write 500 words, from the point of view of what we are bringing to this project in terms of our disciplinary practice and grounding. … This should help us provide something formal that describes what the project might become, as well as helping identify things in common and the differences that matter – positively and negatively. Continue reading

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To Do List 01

Adrian: register domain Adrian: set up project blog David: set up project management system Laurene: confirm RMIT regulations/requirements for APAI All: contribute to GoogleDoc for September meeting Continue reading

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