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Third annual AV Archives Night Shines the Spotlight on Southern US
19 July 2016
Join AVPreserve for the third annual AV Archives Night, coinciding with the Society of American Archivists annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The event, a night of movies and sound highlighting archival collections from organizations in the southern United States, takes place from 7:30 to midnight on August 3rd at The Sound Table (483 Edgewood Ave SE) in the Old Fourth Ward.
Left: Still from “Selections from John Parrott Home Movies.” Mid-1950s. Courtesy of Appalshop. Right: Still from “Egypt (USA),” by James E. Clay, Sr. ca.1929. Courtesy of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia.
The proof is in the standards pudding
21 June 2016
There are a lot of numbers in this post. This song by Kraftwerk might be useful: “Pocket Calculator.”
Digital Preservation Standards: Using ISO 16363 For Assessment
8 June 2016
This presentation, given by Amy Rudersdorf at the 2016 American Library Association’s Preservation Administrator’s Interest Group meeting, provides a higher level discussion of the use of standards for digital preservation and repository management and assessment. Particular focus is given to ISO 16363: Audit and Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories and its usefulness beyond an audit tool to perform assessments to identify both gaps and strengths in digital repository practice.
Archival Musings: The Importance of Place
2 June 2016
The author suggests pairing this post with The Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks. Sweet jams make the musings go down easier.
Exactly version 0.1.2 released!
13 May 2016
Today a new version of Exactly is available for download and use. The newest upgrades include added support for FTP connection stability and a first-attempt at gathering file system metadata for targeted files before they are packaged for delivery. Both of these updates come from requests from Exactly’s growing user community. Please keep requests coming!
There Will Be No Digital Dark Age
11 May 2016
by Bert Lyons
AV Archives Night 2016: Call for submissions
27 April 2016
Digital Asset Symposium on May 4th in NYC
26 April 2016
AVPreserve President, Chris Lacinak has put together a stellar program for the Digital Asset Symposium (DAS) being held at Scandinavia House’s Victor Borge Theatre on May 4th. DAS is a unique international event that brings together an unparalleled cross-section of domain experts in a pragmatic, engaging and educational format to discuss the most current challenges and breakthroughs in managing digital assets today. The lineup of speakers and presentations at DAS was curated to bring about the cross-pollination and convergence of ideas, inspire innovation and invigorate progress. See the speakers and topics below and we look forward to seeing you there!
Possession is nine-tenths of the law. Metadata is nine-tenths of possession.
18 March 2016
For centuries, the verbs to handle, to use, and to wield have been used in reference to physical objects. Today, the handholds created by metadata allow us to employ these same verbs in reference to digital assets. We handle files, use data, and wield information. Text-based digital files, such as Word documents or OCR’d PDF files, provide metadata that make search and discovery as easy as a game of catch with a Velcro ball and mitt. Every word or character within the document serves as another Velcro loop, greatly increasing the chances of connecting with its partner in crime, the Velcro hook, when performing a search. All of the loops and hooks that exist in text-based documents make discovery relatively effortless…almost child’s play.
Applying Digital Preservation Standards For Assessment And Planning
9 March 2016
In this presentation, Bertram Lyons demonstrates a methodology for employing the ISO 16363 standard for Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Repositories as a tool that can be used to help an organization plan for continued improvement of digital preservation services.
