title: Preserving Collections On Tape At The National Library Of Scotland: From Business Case To Bytes
creators: Alistair Bell Lee Hibberd Alan Russell
abstract: The National Library of Scotland collects, preserves and promotes access to films capturing Scotland and her people from the early days of film-making to the present day. Around 12 thousand items in the collection are video tapes that will soon become inaccessible as playback devices become increasingly obsolete. The Library started the Collections On Tape project in 2022 to preserve access to this rich culture through an ambitious digitization project due to finish in 2025. Around 700 terabytes of data will be created that takes advantage of the ffv1 video codec.  The Library will provide unprecedented access to our visitors and video specialists and is honored to share key aspects of this project with the preservation and moving image community.
keywords: digital preservation av business case