PICTURE THIS


UNDER INTERROGATION SGT Fernando Diaz, a combat medic assigned to the 568th Medical Company (Ground Ambulance) based at Camp Humphreys, South Korea, participates in a mock interrogation by opposition forces as a part of the 2012 Pacific Regional Medical Command Best Medic Competition Aug. 30, 2012, at Schofield Barracks, HI. DIMOC’s mission is to collect all military photos for use by the government and the public, regardless of current historical value because such perceptions change over time. (U.S. Air Force photo by TSgt Michael R. Holzworth)


access and download the images for free through a secure website.


MANY IMAGES, MANY SOURCES Not only does DIMOC receive images daily or even hourly through the Joint Combat Camera Center (JCCC) and through the Defense Video and Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS), there is also the occasional, unexpected delivery of a semi-trailer at DIMOC’s climate- controlled Defense Media Records Center at March Air Reserve Base in Riv- erside, CA. One such delivery contained 45 pallets of physical media. Another call led to more than 3,000 collodian glass plates at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard,


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VA, where DIMOC provided an archival assessment for safe handling of hazardous materials and coordinated digitization for DOD and eventual transfer to the National Archives.


Te images are often found in obscure places on bases as they close down or as offices move, Edrington said during a recent interview at DMA headquarters on Fort Meade, MD. “We get a base that [realigns or closes], or somebody finds something and it shows up at Riverside on the docks, a pallet that says ‘box of stuff’ on it.” So, in addition to its digital archive, the agency has a massive amount of images on physical, analog media that range from photographic negatives and


slides to films and videotape with for- mats such as VHS, Betamax and Hi-8. Tat material is deteriorating faster than DIMOC can offer it to the National Archives, and getting it into a digital form is the way to preserve it, Edrington said. In addition, DIMOC’s Riverside facility is running out of space, he said.


‘MOTHER OF INVENTION’ DIMOC’s mission is not a small one. But neither the organization nor its $6.1 mil- lion annual budget is particularly large. So, in 2010, when DMA surveyed the backlog of analog images and what it would take to digitize, catalog and store that cache, the organization came up with an estimated cost of at least $25 million


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July–September 2014


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