- UAB Microcredential
- Code: 5214/1
- 1st edition
- Modality: Online
- Credits: 5 ECTS
- Start date: 10/11/2025
- Finish date: 31/01/2026
- Places: 25
- Orientation: Professional
- Price: 765 €
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Special price 229 €
Group of application: Amount with the NextGenerationUE Fund discount applied
- Teaching language: Spanish
- Location: Virtual with synchronous teaching on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
La digitalization of audiovisual heritage is an essential process to ensure its long-term preservation and accessibility. This training offers a comprehensive overview of digitization methods, file formats, digital object management, and storage infrastructures. Students will acquire both theoretical and practical knowledge that will enable them to properly manage and preserve audiovisual media in a digital environment.
Objectives:
- Learn the digitization methods for different audiovisual media, both from a theoretical and practical perspective.
- Understand the characteristics of audiovisual file formats and their relevance for digital preservation.
- Explore digital object management tools and systems and their application in managing digital collections.
- Analyze digital storage options and related security policies.
- Understand the application of the OAIS model in the preservation of audiovisual collections and archives.
Curriculum:
- Digitization: Methods and Practices
- Introduction to digitization processes for audiovisual media.
- Handling playback equipment and converting analog signals to digital.
- Audiovisual File Formats
- Characteristics of different file formats and their importance for preservation.
- Current trends in digital formats and their evolution.
- Digital Object Management Systems
- Software tools for managing digital collections.
- Key functionalities for ingest, viewing, and classification of digital objects.
- Storage: Devices and Infrastructures
- Types of storage devices and their properties.
- Strategies for managing digital repositories and security policies.
- Application of the OAIS Model
- Understanding the OAIS model for digital preservation.
- Lifecycle of digital documents and ensuring future accessibility.
Registration:
If you are interested in deepening your knowledge of audiovisual heritage digitization and preservation, dont hesitate to enroll. This course is ideal for both industry professionals and those looking to start in this field. Dont miss the opportunity to train in a key area for the preservation of audiovisual documentary heritage.
- Audiovisual file formats
- Digital object management systems
- Storage: storage devices and infrastructures, and management of digital repositories. Security policies
- Application of the OAIS model to audiovisual collections and holdings
- Managers or professionals in centers, organizations, or archives that safeguard and handle audiovisual and sound documentation.
- Staff involved in the processing and management of audiovisual documents in centers such as television and radio archives, audiovisual production companies, media libraries, sound archives, film libraries, or similar institutions.
- Professionals seeking to retrain to pursue new career opportunities in the audiovisual processing and preservation sector, always focused on document management and dissemination.
Objectives:
- Learn the digitization methods for different audiovisual media, both from a theoretical and practical perspective.
- Understand the characteristics of audiovisual file formats and their relevance for digital preservation.
- Explore digital object management tools and systems and their application in managing digital collections.
- Analyze digital storage options and related security policies.
- Understand the application of the OAIS model in the preservation of audiovisual collections and archives.
Curriculum:
- Digitization: Methods and Practices
- Introduction to digitization processes for audiovisual media.
- Handling playback equipment and converting analog signals to digital.
- Audiovisual File Formats
- Characteristics of different file formats and their importance for preservation.
- Current trends in digital formats and their evolution.
- Digital Object Management Systems
- Software tools for managing digital collections.
- Key functionalities for ingest, viewing, and classification of digital objects.
- Storage: Devices and Infrastructures
- Types of storage devices and their properties.
- Strategies for managing digital repositories and security policies.
- Application of the OAIS Model
- Understanding the OAIS model for digital preservation.
- Lifecycle of digital documents and ensuring future accessibility.
Registration:
If you are interested in deepening your knowledge of audiovisual heritage digitization and preservation, dont hesitate to enroll. This course is ideal for both industry professionals and those looking to start in this field. Dont miss the opportunity to train in a key area for the preservation of audiovisual documentary heritage.
Contents
- Digitisation- Audiovisual file formats
- Digital object management systems
- Storage: storage devices and infrastructures, and management of digital repositories. Security policies
- Application of the OAIS model to audiovisual collections and holdings
Career opportunities
People who want to specialize or have an interest in these types of documentation and who work or want to work as:- Managers or professionals in centers, organizations, or archives that safeguard and handle audiovisual and sound documentation.
- Staff involved in the processing and management of audiovisual documents in centers such as television and radio archives, audiovisual production companies, media libraries, sound archives, film libraries, or similar institutions.
- Professionals seeking to retrain to pursue new career opportunities in the audiovisual processing and preservation sector, always focused on document management and dissemination.
Scholarships and financial aid
Within the framework of the plan for the development of university microcredentials, tuition scholarships are offered.
Funded by the "Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan - Funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU."
See the application information on the FUAB Microcredentials scholarships and grants and application information page.
Coordinating centres
FUAB Formació. Archivística y Gestión de Documentos
Collaborating centres
Arxivers sense Fronteres Espanya (AsF Espanya)
Contact
Ariadna Morente Pagès
Phone: 935929710