NC Moving Image Archivists

["Skip Elsheimer" <skip AT avgeeks.com>]

Thanks again Brian.

I got to go to the Library of Congress National Audiovisual Conservation Collection facility in Culpeper, VA last week. It was really awesome. They have the SAMMA robots there, but they aren't hooked up yet.

Skip

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Brian Davis <brian.e.davis AT duke.edu> wrote:

Hello everyone,

Thank you to those of you who expressed a desire to take part in the SAMMA Solo demonstration. I spoke with Steve this morning and the demonstration will take place Monday September 22nd at 2PM. The Digital Production Center (where I work)  will be moving into new facilities in the Perkins Library late in August, so we can tentatively plan on meeting there for the demo. Steve Kwartek will be giving a Powerpoint presentation followed by a live demonstration of the SAMMA Solo.

For those who may not be able to make it to the demo, Steve has proposed (fingers crossed) leaving the unit with Duke for a couple weeks. Duke University Libraries will certainly try to accommodate anyone interested in seeing SAMMA in action for the time that we have it.

thanks,

Brian


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Brian E. Davis
Digital Production Developer
Duke University Libraries
Box 90176
Durham, NC 27708
919.681.8635
http://library.duke.edu
http://tvc15media.com
brian.e.davis AT duke.edu


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Brian Davis/Libraries/Provost/Academic/Univ/Duke

06/17/08 01:44 PM

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Subject	SAMMA Solo

Hello everyone,

For those of you who weren't at the last meeting at UNC, one of the things that was mentioned was a possible demonstration of the SAMMA Solo from SAMMA Systems. You may had heard of them because they received a lot of press a couple years ago when the Library of Congress turned to them for mass audiovisual digitization. SAMMA Systems now builds a turnkey digitization system called the SAMMA Solo (http://www.sammasystems.com/?q=singlechannel_overview) that essentially combines the roles of the analog-to-digital encoder, the time base corrector, and video workstation, into one semi-automated unit.

Steve Kwartek, Director of Archive Sales for SAMMA Systems/ Media Matters has contacted me about a possible demonstration of the SAMMA Solo. I'll be speaking with him sometime next week about setting this up, but first I wanted to get a sense of who among us would be interested in such a demonstration and I also wanted to establish a general time-frame for having it. I'm thinking that late September may work best.

Feel free to email me personally with any specific questions.

Brian

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Brian E. Davis
Digital Production Developer
Duke University Libraries
Box 90176
Durham, NC 27708
919.681.8635
http://library.duke.edu
http://tvc15media.com
brian.e.davis AT duke.edu

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