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Sponsored by the WGBH Educational Foundation and funded in part by a
grant (97-029) from the National Historical Publications and Records
Commission of the National Archives, the Universal Preservation Format
initiative advocates a format for the long-term storage of electronically
generated media. Dave MacCarn, Chief Technologist at WGBH, is the
architect of UPF. He, along with Mary Ide, Director of Media Archives
and Preservation Center at WGBH, are the Project Directors. I am the Project
Coordinator, with feet planted not-always-so-firmly in both engineering and
archival camps.
Working with representatives from standards organizations, hardware and
software companies, museums, academic institutions, archives and libraries,
this project will produce and publish a document called a Recommended
Practice. This document will be submitted to the Society of Motion
Picture and Television Engineers, also known as SMPTE, suggesting guidelines
for engineers when designing computer applications that involve or interact
with digital storage. We expect to make the process of preserving and accessing
electronic records (both original and migrated) more efficient, cost-effective,
and simpler.
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