KNOWLEDGE CENTREIdentify Your Media
Not sure what format you have? Start here with practical guides to identifying older tapes, discs, film, digital media and specialist formats.
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Knowledge Centre & Resources
Specialist guidance for identifying, digitising, preserving and managing documents, books, artwork, film, audio, video and legacy digital media.
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Our Knowledge Centre brings together practical guides developed around the specialist media and digitisation work undertaken by Oxford Duplication Centre. Whether you are looking after a family archive, corporate records, a heritage collection or professional audio-visual material, use the guides below to understand your media and plan the right approach.
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KNOWLEDGE CENTREBooks, Documents & Heritage
Guides to manuscripts, fragile paper, registers, parchment, archival documents, OCR, wide-format material and heritage collections.
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KNOWLEDGE CENTREBook Scanning
Detailed guides covering non-destructive and destructive book scanning, rare books, diaries, albums, ledgers, journals, registers and specialist volumes.
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KNOWLEDGE CENTREArtwork & Fine Art Scanning
Guidance for paintings, drawings, prints, maps, plans, textiles, parchment and oversized artwork using professional imaging systems.
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KNOWLEDGE CENTREAudio Digitisation & Preservation
Reference material covering analogue audio, sampling, bit depth, WAV/BWF, tape deterioration, tape baking and preservation masters.
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KNOWLEDGE CENTREBroadcast & Professional Audio
Specialist guides to broadcast audio tape, professional reel formats, DAT, ADAT, DTRS, DASH, Nagra, Revox and other professional media.
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KNOWLEDGE CENTREVideo Digitisation & Preservation
Technical guidance covering codecs, containers, interlaced video, resolution, frame rate, timecode, QA and preservation masters.
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KNOWLEDGE CENTREBroadcast & Professional Video
Guides to broadcast videotape formats, professional video preservation, timebase correction, signal capture and archival workflows.
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KNOWLEDGE CENTREDigital Data Recovery
Specialist guidance for floppy disks, ZIP, JAZ, KryoFlux, disk imaging, legacy digital media and recovered-file preservation.
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KNOWLEDGE CENTRECD & DVD Extraction
Guides to audio CD extraction, CD-ROM and data recovery, DVD-Video, disc images, damaged media and optical-disc preservation.
Explore Guides →Featured Specialist Guides
Start with some of our most useful technical and preservation guides.
Identify Your Media
Start here if you are unsure what format or type of media you have.
Read guide →Non-Destructive Book Scanning
How fragile, rare and valuable books can be digitised without dismantling them.
Read guide →What Is Artwork Scanning?
An introduction to specialist artwork digitisation and choosing the right capture system.
Read guide →What Is Broadcast Wave (BWF)?
Understanding a key professional audio preservation format.
Read guide →What Is FFV1 Video?
Understanding FFV1 and its role in file-based video preservation.
Read guide →What Is Digital Data Recovery?
Recovering information from obsolete and difficult-to-access digital media.
Read guide →Broadcast Video Tape Digitisation
Specialist guidance for professional and broadcast videotape collections.
Read guide →Broadcast Audio Tape Digitisation
Specialist guidance for professional and broadcast audio tape.
Read guide →CD Audio Extraction
Understanding accurate extraction of digital audio from CD-DA.
Read guide →DVD-Video Extraction
Understanding authored DVD-Video structures and preservation.
Read guide →Optical Disc Error Recovery
What to do when ageing or scratched CDs and DVDs will not read normally.
Read guide →What Is KryoFlux?
Understanding specialist floppy-disk imaging for digital preservation.
Read guide →Complete Knowledge Centre Directory
Browse the complete collection by specialist topic. Open a section to see every guide in that group.
Batch 1 — Foundations & Specialist Media (11 guides)
Batch 2 — Identify Your Media (11 guides)
Batch 3 — Books, Documents & Heritage (11 guides)
Batch 4 — Audio Preservation (12 guides)
Batch 5 — Video Preservation (12 guides)
Batch 6 — Digital Data Recovery (13 guides)
Batch 7 — Corporate Documents (21 guides)
Corporate DocumentsArchitectural Document ScanningArchival Document ScanningBusiness Document ScanningContract DigitisationCorporate Document DigitisationDocument Digitisation File FormatDocument Scanning Quality ControlDocument Scanning ResolutionDocument Scanning WorkflowFinancial Document ScanningHr Records DigitisationLarge Format Document ScanningLegal Document ScanningManuscript DigitisationMedical Record ScanningNewspaper DigitisationOcr Document ScanningProject File ScanningRegister DigitisationTechnical Document Scanning
Batch 8 — Book Scanning (30 guides)
Books Documents Book ScanningPublished Book ScanningAnnotated Book ScanningAntique Book ScanningAtlas ScanningBook Scanning Quality ControlBook Scanning ResolutionBook Scanning WorkflowDestructive Book ScanningDiary ScanningFamily History Book ScanningFragile Book ScanningHardback Book ScanningIllustrated Book ScanningJournal ScanningLeather Bound Book ScanningLedger ScanningMinute Book ScanningNon Destructive Book ScanningOversized Book ScanningPaperback Book ScanningPhoto Album ScanningPublished Book Destructive ScanningRare Book ScanningRecipe Book ScanningRegister Book ScanningSchool Book ScanningScrapbook ScanningTight Binding Book ScanningWar Diary Scanning
Batch 9 — Artwork Scanning (35 guides)
Artwork Scanning Fadgi National ArchivesArtwork ScanningHow To Choose Artwork Scanning MethodArchitectural Drawing ScanningArtwork Digitisation Quality ControlArtwork Digitisation WorkflowArtwork Scanning ResolutionArtwork ScanningArtwork Tiff MasterBlueprint ScanningCharcoal Pastel Artwork ScanningColour Managed Artwork ScanningDrawing ScanningEngraving ScanningEtching ScanningFine Art ScanningFlatbed Artwork ScanningFragile Artwork ScanningFramed Artwork ScanningIlluminated Manuscript ScanningLithograph ScanningMap ScanningOil Painting ScanningOversized Artwork ScanningPainting ScanningParchment Artwork ScanningPencil Drawing ScanningPlan ScanningPoster ScanningPrint ScanningReprographic Camera Artwork ScanningTechnical Drawing ScanningTextile Artwork ScanningWatercolour ScanningWidetek 36 Art Scanning
Batch 10 — Broadcast Video & Audio (43 guides)
Broadcast Audio Tape DigitisationBroadcast Video Tape DigitisationHow Is Broadcast Audio Tape DigitisedHow Is Broadcast Video Tape Digitised1 Inch Audio Tape1 Inch Video Tape2 Inch Multitrack Audio Tape2 Inch Quad Video TapeAdat Audio TapeAnalogue Broadcast Video DigitisationAudio Digitisation Quality ControlBetacam SpBetacam SxBroadcast Audio Preservation MasterBroadcast Audio TapeBroadcast Video Quality ControlBroadcast Video TapeDash Audio TapeDat Audio Tape BroadcastDigital BetacamDigital Video Tape PreservationDtrs Digital Audio TapeDvcam Broadcast TapeDvcpro TapeFfv1 Video PreservationFull Track Mono Audio TapeHalf Inch Audio TapeHalf Track Stereo Audio TapeInterlaced Broadcast VideoNagra Audio TapeProdigy Prodigital Audio TapeProres 422 Hq Broadcast ArchiveQuarter Inch Audio TapeQuarter Track Stereo Audio TapeReel To Reel Broadcast AudioRevox Pr99 Broadcast AudioSticky Shed Audio TapeTape Baking Audio PreservationUmatic Video TapeVideo Container Codec BroadcastVideo Preservation MasterVideo Signal CaptureVideo Timebase Correction
Batch 11 — CD & DVD Extraction (33 guides)
Cd Audio ExtractionCd Data ExtractionCd Dvd ExtractionCd ExtractionDvd Audio ExtractionDvd Data ExtractionDvd ExtractionDvd Video ExtractionAudio Cd Ripping Vs ExtractionBin Cue Disc ImageCd Disc ImageCd Dvd MetadataCd Dvd MigrationCd Dvd Preservation WorkflowCd Dvd Scratch RecoveryCd ExtractionCd R ExtractionCd Rom ExtractionCd Rw ExtractionDvd Dual Layer ExtractionDvd ExtractionDvd R ExtractionDvd Rw ExtractionDvd Video Vob Ifo BupEnhanced CdIso Disc ImageMixed Mode CdMulti Session CdOptical Disc Digitisation StandardsOptical Disc Error RecoveryOptical Disc Preservation MasterOptical Disc Quality ControlRed Book Cd Audio
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