We are pleased to inform you that Institute of Architects Pakistan - Rawalpindi/Islamabad Chapter (IAP-RIC) is Collaborating with 60 Seconds International Film Festival (60 SIFF). The event will start on 22nd April and ends on 27th April, including various activities, workshops and film screenings.
The Tabeer e Nau initiative is part of the festival and showcases their videographic works documenting and digitalizing various aspects of their interventions with the heritage in Gulmit, Hunza Valley.
André C Meyerhans from Fischer Meyerhans Architects will be part of a panel discussion under the theme "Digital Preservation of Heritage" on 5th day of this event.
Please join Friday, 26th April, 5:00pm - 6:00pm. It will be a 40 minutes long discussion followed by Q&A.
The panel can discuss the art of digitisation of heritage in Pakistan where it can archive and libraries from a comparative perspective. Globalisation, mobility and the new techniques that spin off from the digital age bring about new possibilities that stimulate and enhance our capacity to ask new questions about how we perceive ourselves and how we want to preserve our history through the rich heritage.
Digital preservation is a process of preserving both digitized and born-digital contents to a distant future in reusable condition for access by its users. It involves a set of systematic guidelines, processes, strategies, technology and approaches.' The technological obsolescence, shorter and uncertain life-period for current storage media, information glut, and internet revolution are some of the major factors which have made preservation of digital information more complex and challenging. Preservation for access is the key.
Digitization refers to a process for converting print and other non-print materials into digital format for easy access to users. Both print and non-print material has a certain life. So, to preserve these materials beyond that life, we need to adopt long term preservation methods. We may have options like microfilm and digitization as popular methods of long term preservation. However, for efficient and effective access system libraries prefer to go for digitization. Certainly, digitization will help in wider access along with long term digital preservation. The sharing to multiple users at a time; remote the access and availability in multiple formats are some of the other advantages of digitization.
