MoMA
In my internship at MoMA, I learned a great deal about video and sound digitization. It was a great privilege to be given the opportunity to digitize these recordings for researchers to be able to access these materials. During the course of my internship, I was able to digitize over 40 collection items, providing Uncompressed 10-bit Quicktime master files, and creating H.264 and mp3 access copies of each file to be accessed in MoMA's Reading Room for researchers wanting access to these recordings. Especially as MoMA's Archives do not typically have the ability to provide such access to materials unless their audiovisual collections are given to a vendor, many of these materials would not usually be able to be digitized for access nor would there be a preservation master available. With this being the case, MoMA provided a unique opportunity to collaborate with the Media Conservation department to provide access to the necessary equipment to create these files. Through this opportunity, I learned a lot about the workflows that go into creating preservation and access copies and updating records in MoMA's finding aids to reflect changes in the status of these records using ArchiveSpace.
