Baseball Hall of Fame Changing Archive Format?
As many as 50,000 fans could to be on hand this weekend to watch baseball greats Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken, Jr. be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. While footage of the induction ceremony will be archived on analog tape, the Hall of Fame’s first-ever recording using the high-definition format could soon lead to hard disk storage playing full-time role in the archives of the Cooperstown, N.Y., museum. With a collection of memorabilia that includes everything from vintage 16mm film to more modern formats, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Inc. is looking to modernize its IT systems to handle a host of storage demands, said Benjamin Harry, the organization’s recorded media archivist. The Hall of Fame’s current Maxell metal half-inch Betacam SP and BetaCam SF tape architecture already faces a number of challenges, including the finite capacity of tape, the emergence hi-def video and a constant stream of requests for archived footage on CDs and DVDs and in the Bl
