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18 October 2018

Briefings from the Library of Congress Designing Digital Storage Architectures Meeting 2018 (DSA)

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IASA Keynote: Designing Sustainable Collaborations for Impact

18 October 2018

Little known fact about me: I have visited Ghana 9 times in the past 11 years. It has actually been one of the greatest privileges of my career thus far to work with NYU professor Mona Jimenez and several other collaborators helping build capacity for audiovisual archiving with the archives, broadcasters, libraries, and museums in Ghana. So I was excited and honored when the board of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) invited me to present the closing keynote at their 49th annual conference, which was held in Accra, Ghana, October 1-4, 2018. It was an incredible event, and I am eternally grateful to the IASA board for letting me share this story.

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MDQC 0.4: What’s New? How-to #3: Quick Guide to Exporting MediaInfo Files via GUI & CLI

12 October 2018

This month, we released the newest version of our free tool MDQC, which allows users to easily perform metadata quality control. Using ExifTool and MediaInfo, MDQC compares embedded metadata of batches of media files to the metadata found in a reference file defined by the user. The creation of a series of rules allows a user to specify which fields they wish to QC and which files in a given folder the application should scan. MDQC is available for both Mac and Windows users. 

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MDQC 0.4: What’s New? How-to #2: Using MediaInfo Files as Surrogates for Media Files

12 October 2018

This month we have released the newest version of our free tool MDQC, which allows users to easily perform metadata quality control.  In this version — 0.4 — we have incorporated new features that allow more control and independence over the filtering and scanning process. We have published a series of reviews of MDQC’s newest features on the blog section of our website. You can also read our previous blog post on Narrowing scanning filters using base filenames in MDQC.

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MDQC 0.4: What’s New? How-to #1: Narrowing scanning filters using base filenames in MDQC

12 October 2018

This month we released a new version of our free tool MDQC with extended features. In this version —  0.4 — we have incorporated additional functionalities that allow the user to further refine filtering in order to provide more control over the scanning process. We have created a series of posts to provide examples and point to useful tools that can complement these new features. In this post, we will review how to refine the scanning process using specific filtering methods, integrating old functionalities and the new feature Base Filename Import.

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AV Archives Night is Wednesday, August 15

9 August 2018

The Society of American Archivists annual meeting is right around the corner, which means that  AV Archives Night is here, too!

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Announcing AVP’s B2B4C Program

7 August 2018

Introduction

In the next few weeks we will be rolling out new web pages and announcements dedicated to the formation of strategic partnerships with other providers of services and products. In this blog post, I want to make clear what this does and does not mean and provide a bit of background on the philosophy and logic behind this move.

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AVP Webinars 2018 – 3rd Session: AVCC

17 July 2018

Registrations are open for the third session of the AVP Webinar Series focused on Digital Preservation. In this opportunity, our consultant Pamela Vízner will present the functionalities of our app AVCC, a specialized software for collaborative cataloging of audiovisual collections. This webinar will be 45 minutes long, followed by Q&A.

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OHMS – Avalon Integration Now Available

17 July 2018

We are proud to announce that OHMS is now available for Avalon!

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The American Presidents

15 June 2018

By Mark E. Griffin

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