List of freely available analog media inspection templates, forms, or reports.
Sibling repositories: open-workflows and time-based-media-art
- Matters in Media Art (2016) | Condition Report Templates: video, audio, slides, film, computer-based artwork, display hardware
- Columbia University Libraries (2008) | Audio and Moving Image Survey Tool
- Snowden Becker (2017) | A "Living will" for home movies: GoogleDocs version and Home Movie Day blog post with links to additional editable/fillable formats. This is "a series of editable documents that allow home movie owners/creators document their collections and provide provenance, ownership, and stewardship information."
- Guggenheim Museum, Conservation Department (2012) | Media Report: Film
- University of Washington Libraries (c. 2010s? before 2015) | Film Condition Report (archive link)
- Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (2009) | Filmrapport / Film Inspection Form (Dutch)
- National Film and Sound Archive Australia (c. 2008) | Condition Report Form for Film
- National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) (2004) | Print Condition Report for Film
- Filmoteca Española (1996) | Informe de inspección de materiales (película) (archive link)
- University of Washington Libraries (c. 2010s? before 2015) | Videotape/Audiotape Condition Report (archive link)
- Guggenheim Museum, Conservation Department (c. 2010s? before 2014) | Media Report: Tape (archive link)
- Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP) (c. 2006) | Videotape Inspection Form
- Tanisha Jones, Moving Image Archiving & Preservation, New York University (2005) | Video Prioritization, Selection, and Inspection Overview and Form
- California Audiovisual Preservation Project (2013) | Audiovisual Formats: A Guide to Identification
- Indiana University Field Audio Collection Evaluation Tool (FACET) (2007) | Format Characteristics and Preservation Problems
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Preservation Self-Assessment Program (PSAP) | Format ID Guide
- Brian R. Pritchard (2013), interactive PDFs:
- University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections (2012) | Nitrate Film Deterioration Identification
- Barbara Flueckiger (2012) | Timeline of Historical Film Colors
- National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (c. 2000s? before 2017) | Technical Preservation Handbook
- Little Archives (2008) | Video Tape Identification (archive link)
- Video Preservation Web Site (2007) | Video Format Identification Guide
- Texas Commission on the Arts (2004) | Videotape Identification and Assessment Guide
- Katherine Nagels (2018) | reel time: calculate the duration of your open-reel audio
- Chace Audio by Deluxe (2017) | Trigger Tone - searchable online guide to audio post production terminology (archive link)
Please add your own inspection or condition assessment templates and forms to the list above. Order does not dictate preference. Appropriate additions may include:
- inspection reports/forms/templates
- condition reports/forms/templates
- instructional guides for inspecting or assessing the condition of analog film, audio, or video
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