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Drexel University’s Geometric and Intelligent Computing Laboratory (GICL) is supported by both direct external and internal research funding from a number of corporations and government agencies. The Lab’s current projects involve collaboration with universities (Carnegie Mellon University, University of Southern California, The University of Maryland at College Park, Penn State), corporations (AT&T, SDRC, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin), and government labs (NIST, Los Alamos National Labs).
The Image Permanence Institute (IPI) is a university-based, nonprofit research laboratory dedicated to the preservation of recorded information.
Preserving Video – Public Television
Digitally produced public television programs are at great risk of being lost because rapid changes in technology make new video formats and equipment obsolete quickly. Saving these digital programs today will ensure they live far into the future.
Johns Hopkins University – Hoplins Storage Systems Lab
The Hopkins Storage Systems Lab (HSSL) is dedicated to building storage and database systems that address emerging requirements in scientific, high-performance, and distributed computing. Towards these goals, the lab conducts research into: scientific data management, scalable storage systems, data archival and preservation, and storage security.
UCLA Film and Televison Archive
UCLA Film and TV Archive: containing over 220,000 films and television programs, and 27 million feet of newsreel footage, we are the largest university-held moving-image archive in the world. These items are available to the public via screenings, research facilities, and licensing as stock footage for professional productions
E-MELD School of Best Practices (Audio digitization)
This site promotes best practices in digitizing language data. Computer programs commonly used in field research, such as word processors and spreadsheets, produce files that are often unreadable after only a few years. Physical media like cassette tapes deteriorate even when carefully stored. This site suggests how you might collect, convert and store your data in robust digital formats.
NINCH – National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage
By adopting community shared good practice, project designers can ensure the broadest use of their materials, today and in the future, by audiences they may not even have imagined and by future applications that will dynamically recombine ‘digital objects’ into new resources. They can ensure the quality, consistency and reliability of a project’s digital resources and make them compatible with resources from other projects and domains, building on the work of others.>/blockquote>