Digital Audiovisual Archives: Unlocking our Audio and Audiovisual Heritage Potential

Abstract

This article discusses the importance of digital sound and audiovisual
archives in the broadcast environment. However, the digitisation of
sound and audiovisual collections also impact on the non-broadcast
environment. Digitising our AV collections has become critical. As
such, we have entered an exciting phase in managing our assets –
the new archiving. We need to embrace these opportunities to save
our collections and need to respond enthusiastically to the changing
broadcast environment. We need to overcome the inefficiency of
analogue and already obsolete digital content management, and
embrace the complexity of managing of data and objects in an
unfragmented manner.