The FIAF Technical Commission is aware that it performs multiple functions: on one hand, it serves to recommend and advise on technical quality, and should be uncompromising in its advice, so that the FIAF community can count on its technical expertise.
In this sense, as our understanding of evolving technologies and their practical and restoration-ethical concerns deepens, this document is not only a work in progress, but more than that, also a call for discussion within the archival community and for ongoing dialogue with the scanner manufacturers, a call for more transparency from the latter and an appeal to preservationists also. Further reading and additional sources can also be found in the footnotes of this document and within the Scanner Forum in the Members’ Section of the FIAF website. This set of recommendations is designed to offer concepts and digital specifications for archivists and curators as part of collections management planning. The statement is in multiple parts: the first part is dedicated to digitization practices, in reference to articles 1.4, 1.5 and 1.7 of the FIAF Code of Ethics the second part complements the Digital Preservation Principles published previously by the FIAF Technical commission. Part II is a deeper dive into more complex aspects of scanning technology, Part III on Sound, Part IV on Digital Restoration/Manipulation of Image and Sound, and Part V on Digital Preservation and Born-digital assets. Further sections of the Digital Statement will be forthcoming in 2018/19. The document below is the first part of the Digital Statement, and is dedicated to digitization practices, in reference to articles 1.4, 1.5 and 1.7 of the FIAF Code of Ethics. The statement will eventually encompass scanning, restoration and mastering and preservation of data. The code of ethics was created with the main purpose of respecting, preserving and providing access to the most accurate reproduction of a film.
This Digital Statement continues the previous work and sets out recommendations for the digitization, digital restoration, preservation and access to film collections, in agreement with the FIAF Code of Ethics published in 1994.
The guideline Choosing a Film Scanner, published online in 2012 by the FIAF technical commission, is also available. The Technical Commission has been asked by various archives to define best practices for digitization and access. The Digital Statement Recommendations for digitization, restoration, digital preservation and access
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