Translations:Het identificeren en beschrijven van audiovisueel materiaal/13/en

Make a description at item level

Why register and describe?

Registering items or creating an inventory is one of the first steps that audiovisual collection or archive managers need to undertake at the start of a digitisation project. See the article on Digitising audio and video recordings. Digitising film, audio and video is expensive, so it's not feasible or sensible to digitise every audiovisual item in your archive or collections. But registering all the items in a spreadsheet helps you to better assess which items are important or valuable and which aren't. This enables you to prioritise films, tapes and other carriers, and make a clear selection of what definitely need digitising.