Audio Visual Digital Preservation Strategies: A case study in National Broadcasting Agency

Abstract

This study discusses the digital preservation practice and challenges of the media repository in the broadcasting industry. This study covers the digital preservation practices in Wisma TV, Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) where it functioning as information hubs for media resources and assisting in the preservation of cultural heritage. However, these broadcasting archives have mostly gone unnoticed and neglected by those working in the archive sector. Qualitative research methodology is used by implementing the case study design in order to explored the challenges while performing the digital preservation work. This broadcasting organization media collective was envisioned as a distributed network of organizations that supported media production, exhibition, and study, functioning as resource centers for media and supporting regional preservation efforts. Keywords: Audiovisual Archiving, Digital Preservation, Broadcasting Industry eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by E-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer-review under the responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behavior Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioral Researchers on Asians), and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behavior Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.