Vulnerabilidade de películas cinematográficas: Manuseio, conservação, digitalização (desenvolvimento de CD-ROM)

Abstract

A new option to preserve and publish collections in various kinds of themes and proportions came from the new technologies and the conversion from analog information to digital information. The project "Vulnerability of Cinematographic Films Handling, Conservation and Digitization has as subject the cinematographic film, physical and chemistry substrate for the recorded image. By composition characteristics, cinematographic films become vulnerable, they deteriorate themselves easily, through the incorrect storage and handling, thus, as time goes by. The result is the lost of collections and registers, a lost that may be definitive.This dissertation includes a CD-ROM final product of this project.In the CD-ROM, there is information about cinematographic films,identifying their characteristics, kinds of deterioration, handling andcataloguing, and how to preserve collections. About the digitizationprocess, it describes features of digital information in texts, images,sounds and videos; also, it describes how to store this information inoptical and magnetic discs and how to assure the access to thisinformation in the future.This dissertation describes details, features, steps of production, andthe whole information produced to make the CD-ROM, which will presentversions in English, Spanish and Arabic languages.Besides the texts and narratives, 2D animations with the themes citedabove are available in the CD-ROM. Conservation aspects and digitalobsolescence information are also considered. Other kinds of availableinformation are videos and images, completing the set of digitalinformation that is used in the making up of multimedia projects. Theobjective is to show information with the integration of different mediasproviding easy navigation and the interaction by the user.