Video Holdings
The Shambhala Archives houses more than 2,500 video tapes that date from 1973 to the present. Further accruals from Kalapa Recordings and Shambhala International are ongoing. The history of the Shambhala Archives’ video collection parallels fairly closely that of our audio collection. The focus is consistently on recording the teachings of Trungpa Rinpoche, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and other important teachers to our lineage. A significant number of the earliest tapes in our possession were re-mastered in our Video Recovery Project, mounted from 1992 to 1994.
Digital Migration Project 2009
Meanwhile, video technology has moved on – to digital formats, DVD authoring, and the need to migrate all early analog video to digital video. Digital preservation of all early analog video is a critical priority at this point. This fall the Archives submitted a proposal to the Shambhala Trust to carry out digital preservation of 500 hours of video recordings of the Vidyadhara the Venerable Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. The Archives has the equipment to play back and convert the video signal, all that is missing is the storage capacity. The request is to purchase hard drive storage capacity on a Raid 5 storage device. Once digitized, access to these teachings will increase, and the cost for future preservation migrations will be significantly lessened. "RAID" is an umbrella term for computer data storage schemes that can divide and replicate data among multiple hard disk drives. Once data is on a Raid, security is assured as it can repair itself by rebuiding a failed drive from the data on the other drives The type of raid we are seeking is a Raid 5 device, a very stable, industrial strength configuration.
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