<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US">Primary Research Group Inc. has published
the Survey of Academic Library & Museum Efforts to Digitize Film
Collections, ISBN 978-157440-692-4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US">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?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US">Finally, the report explores revenue
producing activities of the survey respondents with data on revenues accrued.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US">Just a few of the report’s many findings
are: </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US">More than 26% of respondents needed to
digitize Super 8 film formats.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US">A plurality of 43.48% of respondents felt
that staff labor spent on digitization would increase in the next two years.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US">The average number of hours of film
digitized over the past year for the overall sample was 157.12.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US">66.77% of the college and university
respondents had digitized film under Exemption 108 of the US Copyright Act</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US">For a table of contents, list of
participating institutions, the questionnaire and an excerpt – view the product
page for this report at: <a href="https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=667">https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=667</a></span></p>
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