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Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
MPEG is the name of a family of standards used for coding audio-visual information (e.g. movies, video, music) in a digital compressed form. This site is the most complete and comprehensive index of MPEG resources on the Internet that mostly focus on MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standards.
Preservation Digital Reformatting Program (Library of Congress)
The goal of this program is to preserve the Library’s collections and offer broad public access to at-risk materials.
Video Preservation and Digital Reformatting: Pain and Possibility, Jerome McDonough and Mona Jimenez
This article examines the potential of digital preservation for videotape formats, takes a closer look at some of the problems with existing practices with regards to video recording, outlines some possible solutions to these problems using digital technologies, and discusses some of the economic issues surrounding digital preservation of video materials.