Resources of the Technical Commission (TC)
The Technical Commission offers the following electronic resources:
- Digital Preservation Principles, the basic principles underpinning a trustworthy digital repository, based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS);
- Preservation Best Practice, the principles of Acquisition, Conservation, Preservation, Restoration, Access and Presentation (2009);
- Recommendation on the deposit and acquisition of D-cinema elements for long term preservation and access, the FIAF recommendations for the acquisition of digital cinema elements (2010);
- Results of the FIAF Film Stock Survey 2012 (The secretariat can provide the supporting spreadsheet to anyone in the FIAF community who asks to see more detail);
- The Glossary of Technical Terms (full list and search engine);
- The List of All Photochemical Film Labs Operating in the World Today (full list and search engine);
- Film Restoration / FIAF Summer School - Online Distance Learning Course Ressources;
Online Resources, a list of over 100 useful links to technical resources;
- Film Duplication Resolution Tests (2016)
- FFV1 and Matroska Reading List (2018) - collated by Stephen McConnachie, Head of Data, BFI
- Film Scanners Forum (members only)
- Register of Archive Equipment (members only)
- The Madrid Project database
- The Digital Statement (part I)
- The Digital Statement Part III: Image Restoration, Manipulation, Treatment, and Ethics, April 2021
- The Digital Statement Part V: Survey on Long-term Digital Storage and Preservation, April 2019
- Digital Technology Guidance Papers:
o Choosing a Film Scanner, some thoughts on film scanner technology for film archives (2016);
o Setting up a digitisation workflow, a case study by EYE Film Institute, Netherlands (2012);
o Digital Cinema Technology and DCPs, how DCPs work, by Arne Nowak (2012);
o Digital Cinema Equipment FAQs, a set of questions answered by Torkell Sætervadet, based on his book, FIAF Digital Projection Guide (2012).
