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Library Of Congress AFC Github Repository
12 October 2017
AVPreserve worked with the Library of Congress American Folklife Collection on processing a series of digital archival collections to: generate access and preservation metadata; map metadata to LOC schemas; batch restructure, rename and bag files to conform to LOC standards; extract metadata from digital files, and generate derivatives.
The resulting processing tools are available on our GitHub account:
Harvard Digital Preservation Format Assessments
12 October 2017
Harvard Library collections include:
- a variety of computer media that will be imaged using forensic disk imaging techniques,
- image sequences, a format used primarily in motion picture film scanning, and
- video assets in a variety of formats.
These materials will be preserved in the Library’s preservation and access repository – the Digital Repository Service (DRS). As a first step towards providing support for this material in the DRS, the Library engaged AVPreserve in late 2015 to assist with the analysis. The goals of the analysis were:
- Recommended formats to accept and prefer for the DRS
- Recommended technical metadata schema(s) to use for these formats
- DRS content models for these objects
- Recommendations for enhancing Harvard Library’s FITS tool to better support these objects
The driving principles of this work were to:
- Provide interoperability with the existing metadata schemas and workflows of the DRS
- Provide sufficient metadata for long-term preservation of these objects
- Adhere to existing standards where possible
- Propose simpler models over more complex ones where possible
Specifically the analysis was conducted in three areas: formats, metadata and tools. See assessment results on the Harvard Wiki page:
- Disk Image Format Assessment Results
- Image Sequence Formats Assessment Results
- Video Formats Assessment Results
BWF MetaEdit and AVI MetaEdit Updates
27 September 2017
We are excited to announce the release of updated versions of BWF MetaEdit and AVI MetaEdit. These tools were: initially funded by the Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration and FADGI; designed and led by AVPreserve, and developed by Jerome Martinez of MediaArea. Thanks to Jerome for his great work on performing these much needed updates!
Post-Irma Digital Disaster Preparedness and Recovery — Thoughts & Resources
14 September 2017
Looking for information on recovery of valuable cultural or personal materials such as videos, photographs, or LPs? Jump to Disaster Recovery Resources for Collections below.
DPN Digital Preservation Curriculum
31 July 2017
In response to DPN members’ concerns around the issues of workflow for digital preservation, DPN engaged AVPreserve to develop a digital preservation workflow curriculum to share with DPN members and others in the digital preservation community. The curriculum is being released with a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution Share Alike (CC-BY-SA) license. (License details here.)
This workshop curriculum will equip participants with a set of skills and knowledge that will enable them to enact programmatic digital preservation within their organization and is focused on equipping organizations with the capability to implement and manage a digital preservation program. The workshop modules present the requirements of a digital preservation ecosystem from two parallel viewpoints: governance and program management as well as asset management.
Each of the six modules is estimated to require approximately two hours and it is suggested that the workshop take place over two full days. The modules are:
• Enabling Programmatic Digital Preservation
• Selection
• Preparing for Submission
• Submission & Ingest
• Post-Submission
• Sustainability
DPN is pleased to make this valuable curriculum available and only asks that terms of the CC-BY-SA license be observed. (Details here.) You may download the files below. We trust it will be an effective asset as organizations continue in the critical work of preserving the scholarly, historical, and cultural record for this and future generations.
- FULL CURRICULUM (ZIP)
- WORKSHOP OUTLINE (PDF)
- WORKSHOP CURRICULUM (PDF)
- MODULE 1 (PPT)
- MODULE 2 (PPT)
- MODULE 3 (PPT)
- MODULE 4 (PPT)
- MODULE 5 (PPT)
- MODULE 6 (PPT)
Exactly Where We Are
25 July 2017
Exactly, a friendly desktop application for creating BagIt-compliant digital packages, is almost 1.5 years old now. Hatched as an idea for allowing oral historians to submit born-digital interviews directly to recipient archives with baked-in, preservation-minded features (e.g., file inventories, checksums, package metadata, producer-archive communication), Exactly is now in wide use across multiple continents, and is supported in digital preservation workflows by a variety of systems and services, including Archivematica and Arkivum. With this wide use, Exactly’s functionalities have been extended to include digital forensics use cases (e.g., an original file system metadata report) and enhanced security features (e.g., support for SFTP delivery).
AVCC Updates Being Rolled Out in the Coming Week
16 June 2017
We are excited to announce a number of new updates to AVCC thanks to major support from Harvard Business School! Here is what will be rolled out in the coming week.
The Workflow Show #203 “Beyond Metadata: The Role Of Audio And Video Search”
5 May 2017
AVP President Chris Lacinak is a featured speaker in this Chesapeake Systems Podcast discussing video metadata workflows and two powerful new search applications, Nexidia and NerVve. Nexidia is a phonetic search application that can scan a library of literally thousands of hours of footage in seconds. NerVve is an application that works similarly with video imagery search. Both applications present easy-to-use interfaces, and the results typically “blow-away” first-time users.
Joined by representatives from each company, the panelists address the questions of what role these applications play in advanced video workflows and whether they threaten or complement metadata-driven media asset management systems?
Audiovisual Metadata Platform (AMP) Large-Scale Tool
5 May 2017
Indiana University, UT Austin, and AVP were awarded a Mellon planning grant in 2017 —called “Audiovisual Metadata Platform” (AMP)—to continue investigating large scale metadata generation of audiovisual materials. This presentation given at the Digital Library Federation conference in 2017 reports on the outcomes of an in-person meeting of archivists and technical experts who gathered as part of the grant for a three day workshop focused on AMP’s technical architecture and design.
AUDIOVISUAL METADATA PLATFORM (PDF)
Fourth Annual AV Archives Night Spotlights Social Justice
28 February 2017
AV Archives Night has become an evening of entertainment and awareness each year at the Society of American Archivists’ Annual Meeting. This year—our fourth—AVPreserve will again co-sponsor the evening with the Association of Moving Image Archivists.
