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THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL DANCE PRESERVATION Digital Videotape Preservation Reformatting Project Members of the Dance Heritage Coalition, as leaders in dance preservation, continue to seek the best preservation medium for dance recordings on videotape. With funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the DHC sponsored a meeting in July 2002 at the Library of Congress, to design an experiment that would determine the most appropriate method of transferring analog videotapes to digital for preservation purposes. In the Spring of 2003, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded funds for the project, which will determine and specify preservation file format candidates appropriate for the dance community. Information gathered in this project will formulate a nationally accepted model, in order to provide a technical foundation for those engaged in dance documentation and preservation, as well as others who use videotape to document their experiences. James Lindner, Media Matters LLC, is the Principal Investigator and Carl Fleischhauer of the Office of Strategic Initiatives, Library of Congress, is Principal Advisor. Findings will be published as they become available, at http://www.danceheritage.org. You can learn more! Discussion of current issues regarding digital preservation can be found through web sites and electronic mailing lists, such as CoOL, listed below. DANCE RECORDINGS ON FILM This publication provides the most widely accepted practices for the preservation of magnetic tape only. For assistance in preserving dance on film, consult the web sites maintained by the Image Permanence Institute (http://www.rit.edu/~661www1) and by Eastman Kodak Company (http://www.kodak.com). See also, The Book of Film Care—Publication No. H-23, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York. You may purchase a copy by calling 800- 847-8755. 
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