Resources

CATHODE RAY TUBES (CRTs)

CRT Manufacturing
How It’s Made
CRT Safety: The Consumer TV Version

CRT Technology
How Analog Video Works
Fixing Purity Error on CRTs with a Degaussing Coil
Television Monitor Synchronization Signals
How To Set Up A Monitor With Colour Bars
Time Code: Drop Frame vs. Non-Drop Frame

Oscilloscope/Waveform Monitor Usage
Introduction to the Oscilloscope
How to Use an Oscilloscope
Oscilloscope Basics

Cable Testing
Using a Digital Multimeter: How to test your cables

Calibration of CRTs
How to Calibrate and Correct Color and Brightness on a CRT TV, BVM and PVM Using SMPTE Pattern
How to Calibrate a Sony KV CRT Consumer TV
Sony Trinitron KV -13TR24 Overview

Electrical Basics/Grounding
What are Ground Faults? Repair and Replace
How to Use a Multimeter for Beginners: How to Measure Voltage, Resistance, Continuity and Amps
How to Identify Hot, Neutral, and Ground Wires using Digital Multimeter and Probe
Ground, Neutral, and Hot Wires
Electrical Grounding Explained: Basic Concepts
Safely Discharge CRT Monitor

Preparing Aged CRTs
Joanna Phillips: Preparing Aged CRTs

Further Reference
Chi-Tien, Lui; Shirley, Raphaele: Fundamentals of the Cathode Ray Tube based Display and its Maintenance and within Contemporary Artworks Conservation, In: Warda, Jeffrey(Ed): The Electronic Media Review, Electronic Media Group, American Institute for Conservation, Volume Two, Washington, 2013, p.137 -142

DIGITAL PRESERVATION

Introduction to Digital Preservation
Digital Preservation Coalition: Digital Preservation Handbook
1996 Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information

Introduction to Video
Weise, Marcus: How Video Works

Time-based Media Art in Museums
MoMA: Getting Started: Caring for Time-based Media Artworks in Collections
Media Matters in Art
AIC Electronic Media Group Post-prints

Preservation of Computer-Based Artworks
Farbowitz, Jonathan: Archiving Computer-based Artworks
Engel/Phillips: Applying Conservation Ethics to the Examination and Treatment of Software- and Computer-Based Artworks
Engel/Wharton: Source Code Analysis as Technical Art History
Techfocus III: Caring for Software-Based Artworks
Guggenheim – Philliips, et.al: The Guggenheim Restores John F. Simon Jr.’s Early Web Artwork “Unfolding Object”
Guggenheim – Philliips, et.al: Restoring Brandon, Shu Lea Cheang’s Early Web Artwork

Digital Systems and Infrastructure
Handel, Dinah: Data Migration, Digital Asset Management and Microservices at CUNY TV
Achivematica Wiki: Microservices
Spalenka, Danielle: Some Assembly Required – Micro-services and Digital Preservation
Prater, Scott: How to Talk to IT About Digital Preservation

Community & Networking

Listservs
Smithsonian Audio-Visual Archives Interest Group: AVAIL Listserv
Collection Stewards of the AAM: CSAAM Listserv
National Digital Stewardship Alliance: NDSA Listserv
Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group: PASIG Listserv

Slack Channels
Museum Digital Preservation Storage - email amy_brost@moma.org to join
Time-based Media Art Concerns - join here

Software & Tools

Open Source Software & Tools for TBM Digital Preservation
AMIA Open Source Committee: Open Workflows
Blewer, et al: Minimum Viable Workstation
Handel: Open Source Tools for Working with Audiovisual Files
CUNY TV: Media Microservices GitHub
Van Malssen: Tools for Smaller Budgets
Ethan Gates: The Cable Bible