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AVPreserve Launches New Free Webinar Series

21 December 2016

We are pleased to announce the launching of a free webinar series, kicking off with a look into three essential open-source tools developed by AVPreserve. Each 45-minute webinar will consist of a demonstration of the tool followed by questions and answers.

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Requirements gathering for technology selection

19 December 2016

(Blondie’s “One Way or Another” illustrates the challenge of acquisition without requirements.)

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Try5 — An SAA Initiative for Ongoing Growth

31 October 2016

[Originally published October 31, 2016 on the Society of American Archivists’ blog, Off the Record: https://offtherecord.archivists.org/2016/10/31/try5-guest-blogger-bert-lyons/]

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Are we there yet?

5 August 2016

As I’ve been writing this post, I’ve had Michael Jackson’s Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ in my head. You too?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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There Will Be No Digital Dark Age

11 May 2016

by Bert Lyons

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AV Archives Night 2016: Call for submissions

27 April 2016

 

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