First Monday March 2005

Dear Reader,

The March 2005 issue of First Monday (volume 10, number 3) is now available at
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/

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Table of Contents

Volume 10, Number 3 - March 7th 2005

New approaches to television archiving
by Jeff Ubois
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/ubois/

Abstract:

Worldwide, more than 30 million hours of unique television programming are
broadcast every year, yet only a tiny fraction of it is preserved for future
reference, and only a fraction of that preserved footage is publicly
accessible. Most television broadcasts are simply lost forever, though
television archivists have been working to preserve selected programs for
fifty years. Recent reductions in the cost of storage of digital video could
allow preservation of this portion of our culture for a small fraction of the
worldwide library budget, and improvements in the distribution of online video
could enable much greater collaboration between archival institutions.

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