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AVPreserve on Freakonomics Podcast
27 January 2017
Over the summer, Chris met with Stephen J. Dubner to discuss what we do for collection assessments. Portions of this conversation became a part of the October 19, 2016 episode of Dubner’s Freakonomics Radio podcast. The episode, titled “In Praise of Maintenance,” explores issues surrounding our culture’s preoccupation with innovation at the cost of maintenance. We couldn’t be more excited to be a guest on one of our favorite podcasts and this episode (and the one that follows) are both so relevant to the work that we and our colleagues do. Take a listen here!
AVP Webinar Series: AVCC
27 January 2017
This is the recording of an AVP webinar given on the topic of the AVCC application by Rebecca Chandler on January 27th, 2017.
Webinar description: For organizations planning preservation work with their audiovisual materials but are confronted with little or no quantitative data about their collection, we invite you to join us for a look the inventory tool, AVCC. An open source web application and guideline, AVCC was developed to enable collaborative, efficient item-level cataloging of audiovisual collections. The application incorporates built-in reporting on collection statistics, digital storage calculations, shipping manifests, and other data critical to prioritizing and planning preservation work with audiovisual materials. AVCC establishes a minimal set of required and recommended fields that provide basic intellectual control and enables collection holders to quantify and plan a reformatting project.
AVP Webinar Series: Exactly
20 January 2017
This is the recording of an AVP webinar given on the topic of our Exactly tool by Chris Lacinak on January 19th, 2017.
Webinar description: For organizations challenged by remotely and safely transferring born-digital material from a sender to a recipient, we invite you to join our workshop on Exactly. A simple and easy to use application that utilizes the BagIt File Packaging Format standard, Exactly supports FTP (and SFTP) transfer, as well as standard network transfers, and integrates into desktop-based file sharing workflows such as Dropbox or Google Drive. Additionally, Exactly allows the recipient to create customized metadata templates for the sender to fill out before submission.
About Us
12 January 2017
Over the past months we have held a series of all-team meetings to take stock and revisit the fundamentals of AVP: who we are, what we do, and why we do it. An outcome of this is a series of statements that serve as a reference and reminder to ourselves as we move through busy days and the weeks fly by. We consider them something we can turn to as a guide for clarity, principled decision making and action. While our focus was initially internal, we have come to believe that it is important to make these explicit declarations accessible externally so that others who are not familiar with AVP and our culture gain insight into us as individuals and a company. We’re working on a re-design of our website this year, and eventually this will have its own section there, but for now we wanted to share it with you in some form.
AVPreserve Tool Survey
12 January 2017
Over the years we have created and distributed a variety of free and open source tools. Now we want to hear from you to help us better understand who is using them, where and how they are (or are not) being used, and what we can do to make them better. At the end of the survey if you choose to enter your contact information you will automatically be entered to win a $100 gift certificate from Amazon if completed by January 31, 2017.
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.
Requirements gathering for technology selection
19 December 2016
(Blondie’s “One Way or Another” illustrates the challenge of acquisition without requirements.)
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/]
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?
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.
