This thesis examines the concepts of reliability, authenticity and documentary form as
defined by archival diplomatics and their relation to moving image records, for the purpose of
exploring the possibility of using them to develop a method for the preservation of the moving
image's intellectual integrity over time. To achieve this purpose, the study establishes a
correspondence between the tenriinology and the theories used to express these concepts in the
two fields through an examination of archival diplomatics and moving images glossaries,
dictionaries and literature.
Notwithstanding the different understandings of the concepts examined, the thesis finds
that when moving images can be regarded as records - that is, as contextual mediated visual and
aural representations compiled for the purpose.of.entering into communication - it is possible to
use archival diplomatics methodology to analyze them successfully. On the strength of this
finding, the thesis proceeds to establish a correspondence between the diplomatic elements of
documentary form and the components of an ideal moving image record, demonstrating parallels
and explaining and reconciling differences, in order to build a template for the analysis of all
kinds of moving image records. This diplomatic instrument is to be used for the identification of
the formal elements of a moving image that allow for the maintenance, verification and
preservation of its reliability and authenticity over the long term. The necessity of such an
instrument derives from the fact that the use of digital technologies for the making, exhibiting
and storing of moving images will render the ability to prove their integrity and their
preservation increasingly more difficult.
The thesis is concluded by a discussion relating the effects of the pervasive use of digital
technologies in the field of moving images, and a demonstration of the substantial threat they
present for the continuing reliability and authenticity of moving images. This discussion shows
the advantages of a close cooperative effort by archivists and moving image theorists in
developing interdisciplinary methods for addressing such threats that are rooted in archival
diplomatics and fully respect the nature of the moving image record.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/11781 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Miller, April G. |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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