MoMA’s Digital Art Vault

Re:MoMA’s Digital Art Vault by zachrose on Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:51PM (#9391693)

I wonder where it comes from. I would guess that it's a few small works like software and games, and then a lot of high-res digital transfers of films, scans of 2-D work, and photos of sculptures and installations.

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Re:MoMA’s Digital Art Vault by mcantelon on Thursday April 16, 2015 @10:10PM (#9391929)

Some of it's 4K video I think.

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Re:MoMA’s Digital Art Vault by zachrose on Thursday April 16, 2015 @10:29PM (#9391973)

For sure. I wouldn't be surprised if they had 8K scans of some things, too. I would be curious how much compression their archival system does on top of whatever original format was used.

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Re:MoMA’s Digital Art Vault by sp332 on Thursday April 16, 2015 @11:45PM (#9392153)

FFV1 has been gaining popularity as an archival (lossless) video codec. It gets about 2:1 compression. I would guess that higher-res scans would compress better because neighboring pixels would look more similar, but I haven't seen any actual data supporting that. Lossless audio codecs like FLAC also get about 2:1 compression, so I'd use that as a rule of thumb for archival audio & video in general.

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