Preservation

Preservation Activities

Library and Archives Canada Audiovisual Migration Strategy

September, 2009

10. Appendix

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10.1 Audiovisual Collection Content Summary by Format

The following table presents an overview of the main audio and video formats that have been acquired by Library and Archives Canada. This summary provides a count by format as well as some highlights of the significant holdings representing both the archival and published areas of the collection.

Media	Format	No. of Archival Recordings	Content Descriptions of Archival Collection	No. of Published Recordings	Content Descriptions of Published Heritage	Total no. of Recordings
Audio	Wire	29	Prayers and ceremonies recorded in a Montreal synagogue Speeches and talks by Jean-Berchmans Michaud	0		29
Audio	Dictation (various)	54	Election campaign talks from the Liberal Party of Canada 1961 conference entitled The Artist in a National Community Telephone conservations between diplomat Arnold Cantwell Smith and diplomats from other countries	0		54
Audio	Piano rolls	0		222	Music in a variety of genres	222
Audio	8 track	18	Mohawk prayer recorded at the time of the Oka Crisis	2,367	Published recordings of music of all genres released by major record labels, small independent labels, individual musicians from the 1960s-mid 1980s	2,385
Audio	Reel to reel (various)	61,437	Peter Stursberg oral history interviews Opportunities for Youth/Great War in Canadian Society interviews from 1974 with people about their memories of life in WWI Carleton University Institute For Canadian Studies oral history interviews with Canadian Broadcasters Speeches and interviews with Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1969-mid 1970s Radio Canada International Broadcasts Randy Bachman, Oscar Peterson and Paul Bley recordings	1,230	Opera Spoken word	62,667
Audio	Cassette (various)	32,984	Single most comprehensive record of unedited speeches and interviews of the Prime Ministers from 1968-2003 Oral history interviews of CBC staff Interviews done in Inuktitut and other languages for the Inuit Land Use and Occupancy Project Oral history interviews of war veterans for Royal Canadian Legion Interviews of Supreme court judges	28,861	Published recordings of music of all genres released by major record labels, small independent labels, individual musicians Spoken word	61,845
Audio	Digital Audio Tape (various)	1,744	CBC and Radio-Canada radio concerts and documentary series produced for the networks Jim Vallance, Ben Mink, Dan Hill and Raffi fonds	0		1,744
Audio	Digital Audio Stationary Head (various)	509	Duke Street Records	0		509
Audio	Disc (various)	69,117	CBC/SRC programs from 30s-60s are the single most comprehensive collection of Canadian radio for that period Radio Canada recordings from 1945-1980 in various languages Glenn Gould and Raoul Jobin recordings	142,892	Published recordings of music of all genres released by major record labels, small independent labels, individual musicians Spoken word recordings	212,009
Audio	Mini disc	40	Interviews recorded by CBC Radio producer Bob Carty for use in CBC Radio network documentaries	0		40
Audio	CD (various)	702	Jean Chretien and Paul Martin speeches and interviews recorded by the Privy Council Office	62,492	Published recordings of music of all genres released by major record labels, small independent labels, individual musicians	63,194
Video	2" Quad	7,255	CBC SRC Episodes of TVA's program Les Moineau et les Pinson CTV Columbia Picture Television Programs produced by Pierre Berton's production company, My Country Productions 1976 Olympics	0		7,255
Video	2" Helical	4,223	Unique copies of: CBC SRC CTV Global	0		4,223
Video	½" EIAJ	1,072	Interviews by Joan Murray with Canadian artists Recordings of ballets from Toronto Dance Theatre Art videos from Art Metropole Videos from the Marshall McLuhan fonds Videos funded by the Canada Council	0		1,072
Video	D1	14	Video copy of feature film The Undertakers Weeding Television programs in the series Femme, une historie inédite	0		14
Video	D2	2,155	Unique copies of: CBC SRC CTV TVA	0		2,155
Video	Betamax	1,792	Public hearings of the Beaufort Environmental Assessment Review Panel in 1983 Videotaped proceeding of National Research Council lecture series, "Physical Sciences in the '80s	0		1,792
Video	Optical disc	6	Masters for the Beyond the Printed Word exhibition	392	Feature films Television programs Documentaries Educational/training videos	398
Video	1" Reel (various)	11,360	Unique copies of: CBC SRC CTV TVA Inuit Broadcasting Corporation Government of Canada productions used to promote and communicate policies and programs	0		11,360
Video	¾" U-Matic (various)	45,768	House of Commons daily proceedings from 1977-mid 1990s Proceedings of Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries Productions by the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation Productions funded by the Canada Council News conferences held at the National Press Theatre in the 1990s	0		45,768
Video	HI8 (various)	134	Footage related to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Ben Mink fonds	0		134
Video	Betacam (various)	18,818	Productions funded by Telefilm Productions funded by the Canadian Television Fund Unique copies of CBC Newsworld Unique copies of TVA news stories from 1982-1989 Canadian Public Affairs Channel programming in French and English CBC coverage of events at Expo 86 Brian Mulroney non-broadcast footage Interviews with John Turner	0		18,818
Video	DVCAM	20	Matt Zimbel fonds Raffi fonds	0		20
Video	VHS	17,535	Royal Commissions and Commissions of Inquiry (ex Somalia) National Press Theatre Conferences late 90s-2006 Oral history interviews of veterans for the Royal Canadian Legion Recordings of National Arts Centre performances CBC Newsworld First five years of TQS TV-5	9,189	Legal deposit of: Feature films Television programs Documentaries Educational/training videos Music videos	26,724
Video	Mini DV	13	Oral history interviews with former CBC presidents	0		13
Video	HDCAM	4	Master videos of recent Canadian fiction short films	0		4
Video	DVD (various)	486	Productions funded by the Canadian Television Fund Productions funded by Telefilm Jean Chretien and Paul Martin speeches and interviews recorded by the Privy Council Office	4,135	Feature films Television programs Documentaries Educational/training videos Karaoke Music videos	4,621

NOTE:

• Audio signals can be recorded on to carriers that were designed to carry video signals (for example, VHS, Betacam, HI8). Any audio material recorded on a traditional video carrier has been counted as a video recording for the purpose of this migration strategy.
• Not included in this count are approximately 9,000 multimedia kits. Multimedia kits consist of two or more physical parts in different formats. Cataloguing conventions in Published Heritage did not dictate that the format of the various parts be identified. This material will have to be surveyed to ascertain what formats they actually contain. The legal deposit of multimedia kits commenced in 1978 and it is therefore assumed that the majority of kits that contain audiovisual materials are on formats that are at a lower risk of obsolescence.

10.2 Members of the Audiovisual Migration Strategy Working Group

John Grace (Chairperson)
Director, Conservation and Preservation Copying Division

Tina Harvey (Secretary)
Manager, Audiovisual Section

Pam Armstrong
Manager, Digital Repository Services and Standards

Rosemary Bergeron
Archivist, Film/Broadcasting Section

Caroline Forcier-Holloway
Archivist, Film/Broadcasting Section

Richard Green
Manager, Music/Sound Recording Section

Kathryn Husband
Supervisor, Audiovisual Legal Deposit

André Larivière (Resource Person)
Film Conservator, Audiovisual Preservation and Access Section

Mireille Miniggio
Director, Cultural Heritage Division

Jean-Paul Moreau
Archivist, Film/Broadcasting Section

Nick Nguyen
Archivist, Democracy, Economics, Society, Sciences and Culture Section

René Paquet
Senior Advisor
Information Technology Branch

Rob Sekerak
Manager, Servers, Information and Storage
Information Technology Branch

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