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Title:

Ready To Be Written: Western Front's Digital Preservation and Migration Project

Agreement Number:

1920-0879

Agreement Value:

$24,998.00

Agreement Date:

Apr 9, 2019 - Mar 31, 2020

Description:

In this project, Western Front Media Archive will address a need for better long-term preservation of digital assets representing important figures and events in Canadian independent art production. It will accomplish this by way of a technology upgrade, a migration, and strengthening the organization’s digital preservation capacity. The organization will prioritize the transfer of content from at-risk media formats to digital formats, informed by archival best practices. A move from Linear Tape Open (LTO)-5 format to LTO-8 format will offer possibilities for duplicate off-site storage for over 5,000 photographic files, 500 moving image files, and 500 audio files. After one year, the organization will have a fully migrated archive of verified, accessible digital assets, a significantly improved long-term storage capacity, and enhanced organizational knowledge of archival best practices.

Organization:

Library and Archives Canada

Expected Results:

Short-term results for this project include the successful migration of data; staff training on Linear Tape Open (LTO) formats; verification of checksums; testing of the retrieval process; and creation of workflow documents. Long-term results include the establishment of protocols and strategies for moving forward; increased long-term storage; networking with the LTO community; and communication of this information to artists and the research community.

Location:

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA V5T 1S1

Reference Number:

129-2019-2020-Q1-00046

Agreement Type:

Contribution

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Type:

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Recipient's Legal Name:

Western Front

Program:

Documentary Heritage Communities Program

Program Purpose:

The Documentary Heritage Communities Program supports the development of Canada's local archival and library communities by increasing their capacity to preserve, provide access to and promote local documentary heritage.