The Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation (PCAVC), also known as National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC) is a state-of-the-art facility where the Library of Congress acquires, preserves and provides access to the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of films, television programs, radio broadcasts, and sound recordings. The Packard Campus has globally recognized capabilities and capacities for the preservation reformatting of all audiovisual media formats (including obsolete formats dating back over 100 years) and their long-term safekeeping in a digital storage archive measured in Petabytes. In addition to preserving the collections of the Library, the Packard Campus is also designed to provide preservation services for other archives and libraries in both the public and private sector.
This statement of work supports the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation.
The Library's mission is to support the Congress in fulfilling its constitutional duties and to further the progress of knowledge and creativity for the benefit of the American people. The National Audiovisual Conservation Center's mission is to develop, preserve and provide broad access to a comprehensive and valued collection of the world's audiovisual heritage for the benefit of Congress and the nation's citizens. More information can be found at http://www.loc.gov/avconservation/packard/mission.html
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Allocated software and associated migration scripts needed from Feenyx for assistance upgrading MAVIS proprietary database to the current software release.