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Video Preservation - The Basics is a general introduction to electronic media preservation for the independent media arts community, researched and written by Sherry Miller Hocking, of the Experimental Television Center and artist and independent preservation consultant Mona Jimenez.

Video Preservation - The Basics was made possible by a Media Action Grant from Media Alliance, Inc and by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.

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Video Preservation - The Basics is a general introduction to electronic media preservation for the independent media arts community; it was researched and written by Sherry Miller Hocking of the Experimental Television Center and by artist and independent preservation consultant Mona Jimenez. The project was funded by a Media Action Grant from Media Alliance, Inc and by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts; acknowledgements list Media Alliance (for excerpting the Magnetic Media Sourcebook) and co-editors Liss Platt and Mona Jimenez, Debby Silverfine, Claude Meyer and the Electronic Media and Film Program of NYSCA, David Jones of Dave Jones Design, and Independent Media Arts Preservation; February 2000.

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