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December 2006

The SAMMA System
Broadcast Engineering
The automated system from SAMMA Systems migrates magnetic media to digital files.

 

November 1, 2006

Media Preservation and Technology Expert Joins Well Respected Video Consultancy
Ian Gilmour of Australia's National Film and Sound Archive Joins Media Matters LLC

 

May 31, 2006 Puerto Rico Broadcasting Corporation receives support from The National Endowment for the Humanities
Funds to be used for the Preservation of and Access to Radio Archives Project.

September 21, 2005

SAMMA Demonstrated For Participants of The 29th Annual Fiat/IFTA World Conference
Media Matters gave its first demonstration of SAMMA, to a European audience during the 2005 FIAT/IFTA World Conference held in New York City from September 16th to the 20th.

August 5, 2005 DAVA, Digital Audiovisual Archiving Blog Launched by Media Matters, LLC
News and Announcements On Topics Related to The Digital Transformation And Preservation of Audiovisual Materials.

August 1, 2005 Media Matters LLC Gives First Public Demonstration of Real- Time Audio-Video Lossless Compressed Encoding Card at National Library of Medicine
Lossless Digital Video Preservation based on Motion JPEG2000 Wavelet Algorithms

April 28, 2005 Jim Lindner Presents Interactive Poster at 2nd Annual Imaging Science & Technology Archiving Conference
Moving Beyond Manual Media Migration: An examination of how automation can improve on traditional media migration practices.

April 23, 2005 Media Matters Gives Presentation on Video Preservation File Format Research at 2005 Boston Cyberart Conference
Results of the Dance Heritage Coalition’s Digital Video Preservation Reformatting Project explained.

November 2004 Preservation Pioneer Develops Automated Tape Migration
Medialine
Jim Lindner’s new System for the Automated Migration of Media Assets, or SAMMA, attempts to solve the problem of manual restoration by taking cues from manufacturing workflows.