The Digital Film-Related Documentation Taskforce has authored a new document which serves as a framework to catalogue born-digital film-related materials.
This document draws upon insights from the Digital Film-Related Documentation Taskforce, an international network of archival professionals working with born-digital film-related materials. It is intended as a framework for Archivists cataloguing born-digital film-related materials.
Film-related materials is a term that refers to a broad range of materials produced throughout the filmmaking process, including but not limited to pre-production, production, and post-production.
These often comprise materials such as the papers of individuals and organisations, animation, designs, posters, publicity material, scripts and stills. Born-digital materials are those that originate in digital form, meaning the film-related materials created in digital formats.
Within this document, essential and desirable metadata fields are outlined to support good digital metadata capture. It does not adhere to any formal cataloguing standard and should be regarded as a framework rather than a definitive authority.