I have often wished for more tape/audio related references on the web. Anyone who's looked up something like Sticky Shed Syndrome on Wikipedia have probably been as disappointed as I've been at the lack of useful info and at worse found misleading assumptions.
Well, the folks at Stanford are doing something about this.
Here's the notice from Geoff Willard which explains and provides a link to this new wiki;
"For the past few weeks, the Stanford Media Preservation Lab has been
working on putting together a wiki-based AV Artifact Atlas with help
from the Bay Area Video Coalition and New York University. We're now
making it available to the greater media preservation community:
http://preservation.bavc.org/artifactatlas/.
The Artifact Atlas is a reference guide that includes terminology,
explanations, and examples (clips and images) of the technical issues
and anomalies that can afflict audio and video signals. It was
designed to support media preservation workers who may have questions
about issues they encounter while playing back or reformatting
original media content. We think this resource will be useful to
students, practicing archivists, and media-reformatting service
providers alike, by enabling us to develop and apply common
terminology to identify and describe the technical problems in our
content that reveal themselves in reformatting workflows or other
playback and preservation processes."
I look forward to seeing this wiki grow.
Please note that this is a resource for the professional preservation/restoration/archivist community. We are lucky that it is available to consumers like most of us.
Leave the entries to the professionals. If you have an issue with entries, you're welcome to discuss it in this forum.
