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Post-Irma Digital Disaster Preparedness and Recovery — Thoughts & Resources
14 September 2017
Looking for information on recovery of valuable cultural or personal materials such as videos, photographs, or LPs? Jump to Disaster Recovery Resources for Collections below.
DPN Digital Preservation Curriculum
31 July 2017
In response to DPN members’ concerns around the issues of workflow for digital preservation, DPN engaged AVPreserve to develop a digital preservation workflow curriculum to share with DPN members and others in the digital preservation community. The curriculum is being released with a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution Share Alike (CC-BY-SA) license. (License details here.)
This workshop curriculum will equip participants with a set of skills and knowledge that will enable them to enact programmatic digital preservation within their organization and is focused on equipping organizations with the capability to implement and manage a digital preservation program. The workshop modules present the requirements of a digital preservation ecosystem from two parallel viewpoints: governance and program management as well as asset management.
Each of the six modules is estimated to require approximately two hours and it is suggested that the workshop take place over two full days. The modules are:
• Enabling Programmatic Digital Preservation
• Selection
• Preparing for Submission
• Submission & Ingest
• Post-Submission
• Sustainability
DPN is pleased to make this valuable curriculum available and only asks that terms of the CC-BY-SA license be observed. (Details here.) You may download the files below. We trust it will be an effective asset as organizations continue in the critical work of preserving the scholarly, historical, and cultural record for this and future generations.
- FULL CURRICULUM (ZIP)
- WORKSHOP OUTLINE (PDF)
- WORKSHOP CURRICULUM (PDF)
- MODULE 1 (PPT)
- MODULE 2 (PPT)
- MODULE 3 (PPT)
- MODULE 4 (PPT)
- MODULE 5 (PPT)
- MODULE 6 (PPT)
Exactly Where We Are
25 July 2017
Exactly, a friendly desktop application for creating BagIt-compliant digital packages, is almost 1.5 years old now. Hatched as an idea for allowing oral historians to submit born-digital interviews directly to recipient archives with baked-in, preservation-minded features (e.g., file inventories, checksums, package metadata, producer-archive communication), Exactly is now in wide use across multiple continents, and is supported in digital preservation workflows by a variety of systems and services, including Archivematica and Arkivum. With this wide use, Exactly’s functionalities have been extended to include digital forensics use cases (e.g., an original file system metadata report) and enhanced security features (e.g., support for SFTP delivery).
AVCC Updates Being Rolled Out in the Coming Week
16 June 2017
We are excited to announce a number of new updates to AVCC thanks to major support from Harvard Business School! Here is what will be rolled out in the coming week.
The Workflow Show #203 “Beyond Metadata: The Role Of Audio And Video Search”
5 May 2017
AVP President Chris Lacinak is a featured speaker in this Chesapeake Systems Podcast discussing video metadata workflows and two powerful new search applications, Nexidia and NerVve. Nexidia is a phonetic search application that can scan a library of literally thousands of hours of footage in seconds. NerVve is an application that works similarly with video imagery search. Both applications present easy-to-use interfaces, and the results typically “blow-away” first-time users.
Joined by representatives from each company, the panelists address the questions of what role these applications play in advanced video workflows and whether they threaten or complement metadata-driven media asset management systems?
Audiovisual Metadata Platform (AMP) Large-Scale Tool
5 May 2017
Indiana University, UT Austin, and AVP were awarded a Mellon planning grant in 2017 —called “Audiovisual Metadata Platform” (AMP)—to continue investigating large scale metadata generation of audiovisual materials. This presentation given at the Digital Library Federation conference in 2017 reports on the outcomes of an in-person meeting of archivists and technical experts who gathered as part of the grant for a three day workshop focused on AMP’s technical architecture and design.
AUDIOVISUAL METADATA PLATFORM (PDF)
Fourth Annual AV Archives Night Spotlights Social Justice
28 February 2017
AV Archives Night has become an evening of entertainment and awareness each year at the Society of American Archivists’ Annual Meeting. This year—our fourth—AVPreserve will again co-sponsor the evening with the Association of Moving Image Archivists.
AVP Webinar Series: Fixity
8 February 2017
This is the recording of an AVP webinar given on the topic of the Fixity application by Amy Rudersdorf on February 8th, 2017.
Webinar description: How do you know if your digital files are corrupt, missing, moved or renamed? We invite you to join us to learn how Fixity will allow you to monitor and report on file integrity and attendance. How does it work? Fixity scans a folder or directory, creating a manifest of the files including their file paths and their checksums, against which regular comparative analyses are performed. Fixity then emails a report to the user documenting flagged items along with the reason for a flag, such as that a file has been moved to a new location in the directory, has been edited, or has failed a checksum comparison for other reasons. When run regularly, Fixity becomes a powerful tool for monitoring digital files in almost any storage location.
AVPreserve on Freakonomics Podcast
27 January 2017
Over the summer, Chris met with Stephen J. Dubner to discuss what we do for collection assessments. Portions of this conversation became a part of the October 19, 2016 episode of Dubner’s Freakonomics Radio podcast. The episode, titled “In Praise of Maintenance,” explores issues surrounding our culture’s preoccupation with innovation at the cost of maintenance. We couldn’t be more excited to be a guest on one of our favorite podcasts and this episode (and the one that follows) are both so relevant to the work that we and our colleagues do. Take a listen here!
AVP Webinar Series: AVCC
27 January 2017
This is the recording of an AVP webinar given on the topic of the AVCC application by Rebecca Chandler on January 27th, 2017.
Webinar description: For organizations planning preservation work with their audiovisual materials but are confronted with little or no quantitative data about their collection, we invite you to join us for a look the inventory tool, AVCC. An open source web application and guideline, AVCC was developed to enable collaborative, efficient item-level cataloging of audiovisual collections. The application incorporates built-in reporting on collection statistics, digital storage calculations, shipping manifests, and other data critical to prioritizing and planning preservation work with audiovisual materials. AVCC establishes a minimal set of required and recommended fields that provide basic intellectual control and enables collection holders to quantify and plan a reformatting project.
