Julia Mettenleiter, Swedish Film Institute The AMIA Preservation Committee’s poster session shows the initial findings of our Film Cleaning Practices Survey. Over 50 institutions and individuals responded, representing 13 countries. The survey showed some trends in practices and equipment use, and highlighted some areas for further research, which we will mention during this poster session. This is an intital step towards a larger panel...

Kirk Mudle, NYU, MIAP MA Student This poster examines the legal status of unlicensed fan works, specifically video game modifications (“mods”), through a case study of the recent work and legal challenges of independent game developer and ROM hacker Kaze Emanuar. A case involving video game mods has never been brought before the Supreme Court, but the topic has been addressed by lower circuits in several cases, the most recent being...

Katie Higley, Central Michigan University This poster presentation will detail the creation and results of a McNair research project, the Michigan Museum Film Collections Survey. The poster will include how I became interested in this topic, the methods used to create the survey, and the results/implications drawn from the survey. The goal of the survey was to document how Michigan museums preserve and employ their film collections, to...

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Miguel Resendiz, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Every year, the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives accessions many CD-Rs and DVD-Rs. Occasionally, archivists request help from Conservation to assess discs with physical surface condition problems. As part of an intern project to research physical and digital remediation strategies for physically damaged discs, a sample set of 30 non-accessioned discs was prepared and placed in a test fire as...

Gonzalo Ramirez, R2Media In 1995 the first segmented network in Chile was born, phrases that it was not allowed to work in the channel for people over 30, for example, filled pages of diaries and magazines. Canal 2 Rock&Pop was born with an aura of new, to disrupt the classic way of watching TV, a network for the young made by the young. The project abruptly ended 4 years later, due to mismanagement, and leaving a lot of new faces that are...

Anna Esparza, University of North Texas The presenter will define and explain pre-digitization and post-digitization workflows for a local Texas television news collection held at the Special Collections Department of the University of North Texas Libraries (UNTL), and how licensing digitized materials continue to fund their on-going efforts. UNTL has worked to digitize over 60 years’ worth of historical film and provide online digital...

Lauren Sorensen, Pratt Institute, School of Information Lindsay Miller, New York University, MIAP Ali Post, Pratt Institute, School of Information Anthony Cocciolo, Pratt Institute, School of Information In 2018, the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network (DPOE-N) moved from its original home with the Library of Congress, to Pratt Institute and NYU’s Moving Image Archiving & Preservation program. In 2020, with generous two year...