Login
Online Lunch Lecture format
Staff members of the Österreichische Mediathek provide online information about the technical, organisational, theoretical and practical background of our work. The events are open to interested parties and provide basic information for collections and institutions with media holdings. They are aimed at collectors and those responsible for libraries, archives and museums who are involved in the preservation and management of digital audiovisual collections. Lunch lectures are announced on the website and in the newsletter a few weeks before the event.
Lunch Lecture I: Video tapes – evaluation and format identification. Online lunch lecture by Marion Jaks
Marion Jaks, an expert in digital archiving at the Österreichische Mediathek, deals with questions of evaluating and identifying the format of video tapes. How are video tapes examined? Which tape formats are available in collections and archives? What information can we obtain about the carriers in order to use it for digitisation planning?
The event took place on 17 November 2022.
The presentation slides from the event can be downloaded here.
Lunch Lecture II: What to do with analogue video? Online lunch lecture by Marion Jaks
Marion Jaks, a video digitisation expert at the Österreichische Mediathek, talks about how to handle analogue video recordings in collections and archives. What are the key issues in video preservation? What decisions are necessary to ensure the preservation of a collection? Can I do it myself?
The event took place on 23 June 2022.
The presentation slides from the event can be downloaded here
Lunch Lecture III: Digitising records from shellac to vinyl. Online lunch lecture by Stefan Kaltseis
Stefan Kaltseis, head of digitisation at the Österreichische Mediathek, deals with questions concerning the digitisation of different record formats. How are shellacs and vinyl records digitised? Which devices and which needles are used? What about cleaning and storage? Which archive formats are recommended? The event took place on 20 April 2023.
The presentation slides from the event can be downloaded here.
Lunch Lecture IV: The Unknown in the Archive? Collection development and collection appraisal for audiovisual collections. Online Lunch Lecture by Gabriele Fröschl
Gabriele Fröschl, the director of the Österreichische Mediathek, deals with questions of collection development and the appraisal and evaluation of analogue and digital media collections in archives and libraries. How are collections evaluated and how are they assessed? What questions arise when integrating new acquisitions into existing collections? What criteria should be considered in relation to sustainable collection development?
The event took place on 16 November 2023.
The presentation slides from the event can be downloaded here.
Lunch Lecture V: Long-term archiving for audio and video collections. Online Lunch Lecture by Marion Jaks
Marion Jaks, the digital archivist at the Österreichsche Mediathek, deals with questions regarding the long-term archiving of digital media collections in archives and collections. What happens after digitisation? How is digital media content archived? What is long-term archiving? What
The event took place on 16 May 2024.
The presentation slides from the event can be downloaded here.