The Future of Memory

A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive

Jimi Jones, Marek Jancovic (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2025 | New edition
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08875-9 (ISBN)

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A new generation of video standards promises lossless storage of digital objects for future generations. Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic document the development and adoption of JPEG 2000, FFV1, MXF, and Matroska while investigating the social and material aspects of their design and the forces driving their journeys from niche to ubiquity. Drawing on interviews with archivists and developers, Jones and Jancovic reveal the archive as a dynamic space where deeply entrenched social practices produce disagreements but also resourceful collaborations. They contrast the unprecedented rise of archivist-driven standardization and controversies around non-standard technology with the historical dominance of the film and broadcast industries. Throughout, the authors clarify the role of tech companies, software developers, film pirates, hackers, and other players with poorly understood roles in the process.

A timely look at the state of audiovisual preservation, The Future of Memory provides a history of recent innovations alongside a snapshot of a field in the midst of profound technological change.

Jimi Jones is an adjunct lecturer of library and information sciences for the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Marek Jancovic is an assistant professor of media studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of A Media Epigraphy of Video Compression: Reading Traces of Decay.

Acknowledgments

List of Acronyms

Introduction. So Many Standards, So Little Time: The People and Politics Behind Archival Video Formats

“Lossless”: The Materiality of Archival Video Format Standards
Standards with a Capital S: The Making and Meaning of JPEG 2000 and MXF
Wild Formats: The History and Standardization of FFV1 and Matroska
Standards at Work: For-Profit, Nonprofit, and the Global and Social Technopolitics of Standardization

Notes Works Cited

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.06.2025
Reihe/Serie	The History of Media and Communication
Zusatzinfo	12 black & white photographs, 4 tables
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-252-08875-1 / 0252088751
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08875-9 / 9780252088759
Zustand	Neuware