Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Academic Library & Museum Efforts to Digitize Film Collections, ISBN 978-157440-692-4

This report brings together data and commentary about film digitization from 23 institutions, primarily research universities but also museums, and special libraries and film archives.   The highly detailed data in this 130-page report helps its readers to answer questions such as: what is the stock of undigitized and digitized file held by universities, museums and film archives?  How much have they digitized recently? How much do they plan to digitize? Are they digiting in-house or outsourcing? How much as they spending and plan to spend?  Who are their suggested outsourcing partners and what advice can they give their peers on digitization processes?  What is the size of the backlog to digitize? Is this backlog growing or shrinking?  How many employees are involved in film digitization and what is the outlook for use of staff labor in this area?

The study looks at rights management issues, including use of Section 108 exemptions under the US Copyright Act and the need for rights management services. 

The report also delves into the nitty gritty of the kinds of services survey respondents feel that they need with; data and commentary specifically measuring  the need for mold removal, colorization and color restoration, metadata assistance, rights clearance, film cleaning, film baking and restoration and sound synchronization. 

The study also breaks down the need for help by film types with data for 16mm, Super 8, 35mm, 28mm and other types.  It also looks at the use of various resolution sampling schemes and at the use of various data file compression formats including but not limited to API, Flash, Motion JPEG 2000, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media Video and others.

Finally, the report explores revenue producing activities of the survey respondents with data on revenues accrued.

Just a few of the report’s many findings are: 

More than 26% of respondents needed to digitize Super 8 film formats.

A plurality of 43.48% of respondents felt that staff labor spent on digitization would increase in the next two years.

The average number of hours of film digitized over the past year for the overall sample was 157.12.

66.77% of the college and university respondents had digitized film under Exemption 108 of the US Copyright Act

For a table of contents, list of participating institutions, the questionnaire and an excerpt – view the product page for this report at:  https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=667

View our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.

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