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From Mass Digitization To Mass Description: Indiana University’s Strategy To Overcome The Next Great Challenge
8 June 2015
Over the past decade, much focus has been placed on mass digitization of legacy audiovisual collections. With progress on this front, today there is a new focus emerging: mass description. In 2014 Indiana University (IU) began an effort to digitize hundreds of thousands of hours of audiovisual materials from across campus, leading to the challenge of describing this extraordinarily diverse set of materials both at scale and at a sufficient level of granularity to enable meaningful and effective discovery.
In 2015, with the support of AVP, IU began a strategic planning project to research, analyze and report on technologies, workflows, staffing, timeline and budgets to address this challenge. This presentation, given by Jon Dunn and Chris Lacinak at the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) conference in 2016, delves into the background, goals, approach and next steps for this work.
AVPS Moving to Industry City
26 May 2015
After six-plus years in Midtown Manhattan, AVPS is moving offices to Industry City in Brooklyn. A former manufacturing, storage, and shipping hub located on the Brooklyn waterfront in the Sunset Park neighborhood, Industry City is an exciting new office and light manufacturing development zone that is a growing home to start-ups, restaurants, artists, local crafts and food producers, and many more. We’re very excited to join businesses like MakerBot, Blue Marble Ice Cream, and the Brooklyn Nets in this space primed for innovation and collaboration, two of the hallmarks of what drives the work we do.
AVPreserve Releases Two Metadata Management Tutorials for Preservation Week 2015
27 April 2015
Pixels, Lines, And Bits: An AV Preservation Primer
16 April 2015
On Thursday, April 16, 2015, Kathryn Gronsbell spoke at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in Brooklyn. The event, “PIXELS, LINES, AND BITS: An A/V Preservation Primer for Artists”, was a discussion around personal archiving and preservation approaches for artists interested in stabilizing their work so that it can be available in the short- and long-term.
The presentation and Q+A session was an introduction to concepts like preserving and managing media, how you can leverage your time and money to make more sustainable decisions, and what the benefits might be now and in the future. Thank you to NYFA and Independent Media Arts Preservation for helping organize this event. See NYFA’s Highlight Reel from the discussion.
The Things We Do: This Must Be The Wrong Lock Because I Have The Right Key
19 March 2015
Ah, the question. What do you do? Saying that we do consulting and software development isn’t inaccurate but it never feels adequate either, because it leaves out so much of what is critical about being good at what we do.
Indiana University Announces Release of MediaSCORE and MediaRIVERS
12 March 2015
Indiana University announces the release of free, open source media preservation prioritization software created in collaboration with AVPreserve.
AV Archives Night 2015 Call for Submissions
12 February 2015
After the great success of our First Annual AV Archives Night at SAA 2014 we’re excited to be planning our 2nd First Annual AV Archives Night party to take place August 19th during SAA 2015 in Cleveland. We learned a lot from our first go round, so this year promises to be much improved and just as fun. We have acquired a loft apartment minutes away from the conference center to have our presentation, and there will be free refreshments (additional contributions appreciated). We have a number of submissions so far but are looking for more!
ISO 16363: Sizing Up The Standard
29 January 2015
This presentation from Seth Anderson covers recent efforts at AVP to reframe the often information-heavy results of ISO 16363 audits into straightforward data points based on scoring criteria with actionable recommendations for achieving compliance. The presentation includes examples of different applications of the standard as a means of assessing developing digital preservation infrastructure and planning for completely new policies and systems.
Additionally, extensive work with the standard has revealed inconsistencies and repetitive elements that cause confusion and difficulty in interpreting and applying the requirements of a trustworthy digital repository. Seth posits an altered hierarchy to address these issues in future versions of the standard, an approach that looks to such documents not as a static, inflexible set of guidelines, but pragmatically as a framework to apply and continually refine as results and technologies change, much like digital preservation itself!
Implementation Of Systems For Media & Digital Asset Management In 10 Steps
29 January 2015
Kara Van Malssen‘s presentation from the Take Control of Your Records! conference at the National Audiovisual Institute in Warsaw, Poland offers 10 steps an organization can take to help ensure successful implementation of a media/digital asset management system.
Make It Happen
19 January 2015
As we saw in the recent #WhyAmIAnArchivist Twitter hashtag, for many people one of the inspirations to becoming an archivist is the thrill of discovering lost documents that unlock the past (or unlock an ancient vault full of gold or autopsied aliens). Life is an encoded puzzle written in invisible ink, and perhaps, just perhaps, that misplaced letter or oral history or receipt from 7-11 will shade in the image just a little bit more, enough to make out a fresh answer to the mystery or somehow better connect the present to the past.
