3D in a living room near you

Another piece of "3D is the future" hype (this time for your living room...).

Blue Ray standards for 3D

Come to think of it, my living room, and everywhere else for that matter, is already in 3D.

Not forgetting in the Netherlands

A future for our digital memory:
permanent access to information in the Netherlands
interim report (English version)

Job! ... but not AV

TATE Head of Conservation, British Art
or
TATE Head of Conservation, International Art

A candidate briefing pack with application form can be downloaded here

Closing date for applications is September 11th 2009.

IASA Conference - Athens - very soon!

The annual IASA (International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives) conference will be held in Athens between 20 - 25 September 2009

Details can be found on the conference website

ARSC Proceedings

Audio recordings of presentations delivered during the 2009 ARSC Conference
in Washington, DC are freely available online in M3U and MP3 formats
In a few cases, PowerPoint slides and other supplementary materials are
included.

EU's lack of common web copyright solution

Europe's Digital Library doubles in size but also shows EU's
lack of common web copyright solution

Yesterday (28 August 2009) the European Commission declared in a policy
document as its target to bring the number of digitised objects
available through Europena to 10 million by 2010. To address
all these issues, the Commission launched a public consultation
on the future of Europeana and the digitisation of books that
will run until 15 November 2009.
The press release and the online consultation are available here

$17 M nitrate store

Canada puts in the dollars to save its film heritage with a $17 million nitrate store.