Resumen de Pushing the Boundaries of Traditional Heritage Policy: maintaining long-term access to multimedia content

Gregory Miura

• This paper will address the direction chosen by the Audiovisual Department of the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF) in order to maintain access to a comprehensive collection of multimedia and electronic documents.

  It will describe several experimental technical solutions for preservation, emphasizing the consequences of a requirement for future users to be able to use these documents for research purposes. These result in the use of emulation solutions as well as new practices of collection development policy with regard to the specifi c structure of information within a multimedia context