List of freely available analog media inspection templates, forms, or reports.
Sibling repositories: open-workflows and time-based-media-art
- Guggenheim Museum, Conservation Department (date unknown) | Media Report: Tape; Media Report: Film
- Matters in Media Art (2016) | Condition Report Templates: video, audio, slides, film, computer-based artwork, display hardware
- Tanisha Jones, Moving Image Archiving & Preservation, New York University (2005) | Video Prioritization, Selection, and Inspection Overview and Form
- Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP) (c. 2006) | Videotape Inspection Form
- National Film and Sound Archive Australia (c. 2008) | Condition Report Form for Film
- Filmoteca Española (1996) | Informe de inspección de materiales (película)
- National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) (2004) | Print Condition Report for Film
- Columbia University Libraries (2008) | Audio and Moving Image Survey Tool
- University of Washington Libraries (date unknown) | Film Condition Report; Videotape/Audiotape Condition Report
- Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (2009) | Filmrapport / Film Inspection Form (Dutch)
- Snowden Becker (2017) | A "Living will" for home movies: GoogleDocs version and Home Movie Day blog post with links to additional editable/fillable formats. This is "a series of editable documents that allow home movie owners/creators document their collections and provide provenance, ownership, and stewardship information."
- Brian R. Pritchard (2013) | A Tool for Identifying 35mm Motion Picture Film; A Tool for Identifying 16mm Motion Picture Film (interactive PDFs)
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Preservation Self-Assessment Program (PSAP) | Format ID Guide
- California Audiovisual Preservation Project (2013) | Audiovisual Formats: A Guide to Identification
- Texas Commission on the Arts (2004) | Videotape Identification and Assessment Guide
- Indiana University Field Audio Collection Evaluation Tool (FACET) (2007) | Format Characteristics and Preservation Problems
- Video Preservation Web Site (2007) | Video Format Identification Guide
- Little Archives (2008) | Video Tape Identification
- University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections (2012) | Nitrate Film Deterioration Identification
- National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (date unknown) | Technical Preservation Handbook
- Barbara Flueckiger (2012) | Timeline of Historical Film Colors
- Chace Audio by Deluxe (2017) | Trigger Tone - searchable online guide to audio post production terminology
- Katherine Nagels (2018) | reel time: calculate the duration of your open-reel audio
Please add your own inspection or condition assessment templates and forms to the list above. Order does not dictate preference. Appropriate additions may include:
- inspection reports/forms/templates
- condition reports/forms/templates
- instructional guides for inspecting or assessing the condition of analog film, audio, or video
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