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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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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!

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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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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!

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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.

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What is the chemistry of digital preservation?

18 February 2016

When we develop preservation strategies for paper-based materials an essential consideration is the underlying chemistry of the physical materials themselves. Paper is an organic compound, made of cellulose fibers, or, sometimes, a mix of cellulose and lignin fibers. Cellulose is a polysaccharide of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms, C6H10O5.

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Amy Rudersdorf Joins the AVPreserve Team as Senior Consultant

8 February 2016

We are very excited to welcome Amy Rudersdorf to the staff of AVPreserve in the Madison office. Having built and led multiple departments charged with providing data management and preservation services, Amy has extensive experience in the administration, operation, and technologies required to maintain and leverage digital assets over the long term. Most recently Amy worked with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), an organization providing a platform for centralized access to collections consisting of millions of digital assets from thousands of disparate organizations throughout the US. In her role with DPLA, Amy consulted with contributing organizations to aid in the creation, mapping, transformation, and normalization of their metadata to meet DPLA requirements. Amy has taught preservation and metadata courses at the graduate level and participates on national and international committees and advisory panels related to metadata, digital preservation, and coordinated efforts around large-scale aggregation of audiovisual content. Read more about Amy here.

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