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AVPS Represents AMIA And AES At National Recording Preservation Board Hearing

Chris Lacinak of AudioVisual Preservation Solutions (AVPS) was honored and privileged to receive a request from the Association of Moving Image Archivist (AMIA) Executive Director , Keith LaQua and President, Janice Simpson to represent the AMIA community at the New York Hearing of the National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB) held on December 19th , 2006. The hearing was attended by a broad range of experts filled with passion on the topic of the preservation of recorded sound.

As a co-chair of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Technical Committee on Archiving, Restoration and Digital Libraries, Chris also represented the AES community at the hearing.

The National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB) was formed through a mandate of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000. The Librarian of Congress, in consultation with the National Recording Preservation Board, is conducting a study on the current state of recorded sound preservation and restoration in the United States. The NRPB’s activities in this area will be compiled into a report for the Librarian of Congress to raise awareness and inform policy affecting our cultural heritage.

More information can be found at the website below.
www.loc.gov/rr/record/nrpb/nrpb-clir.html

AVPS Recognized In The Image Permanence Institute’s Magnetic Media Study Report Funded By The National Endowment For The Humanities (NEH)

AVPS was honored to collaborate with the stellar team at the Image Permanence Institute (IPI) on their Magnetic Media Study. This study aims to find correlative and causal relationships between detectable degradation mechanisms and quality of reproduction. In finding such relationships, tools can be created similar to the IPI Acid Detection Strip, which will detect a known indicator of failure.

AVPS was proud to be asked to share our experience and knowledge on the matter of assessment and we are thankful to the Image Permanence Institute for the opportunity to work together. You can view the special thanks to AVPS, and more importantly the full report from the study in the coming months.

For more on IPI contributions to Magnetic Media Preservation, you can visit their website below.
http://www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org/shtml_sub/pr_magnetic.asp

AVPS Contributes To The Newly Launched Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) Online Preservation Resource

When AVPS was asked to contribute to the Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) online preservation resource by bringing clarity to the client/preservation vendor relationship, we gladly accepted. The client/vendor relationship and matching of audiovisual preservation goals with institutional capability is a primary activity of AVPS. Given the present state of audiovisual preservation standards and best practices, this is a topic worthy of much conversation for the sake of needed clarification.

We were happy to have the opportunity to lend a helping hand in navigating this difficult path. You can download the resource created by AVPS in the resources section of our website.

You will also find the EAI online preservation resource below.
resourceguide.eai.org

AVPS Invited To Join The Advisory Board For The Recently Launched NYU Preservation Department Assessment Project Funded By The Mellon Foundation

AVPS was asked to join the advisory board for the NYU Preservation Department Assessment Project due to our experience with assessing dynamic objects (audiovisual media and content) and for our perspective on the landscape of current assessment projects and technologies.

The project titled “Developing Principles and Methodologies for Moving Image and Audio Preservation in Research Libraries” will conduct research to develop new surveying methodologies for video and audio collections.

Results will ultimately aid in the development of best practices for assessment and preservation planning. We are proud to serve on the advisory board and look forward to working with the excellent team assembled to take on the project.

Where Do Humans Need To Be In The AI Loop? AVP Case Study

In 2020 the Library of Congress Labs began the Humans in the Loop experiment to explore ways to responsibly combine crowdsourcing experiences and machine learning workflows. Through a public selection process, AVP was chosen as a project partner to collaboratively develop a framework for ethically, engagingly, and usefully incorporating human feedback via crowdsourcing into training data for machine learning processes. Machine learning’s reliance on pattern recognition and training decisions made by human annotators makes it really good at predicting past classifications. But complexities emerge especially when it comes to the potential to replicate and even proliferate bias and harmful effects. So where do humans need to be in the AI loop? 

The project outcomes will provide structure and context for everyone in the machine-learning and libraries communities to better evaluate potential issues that arise through automated, AI-powered metadata enrichment processes. The project is also creating training data constructed with ethical guidelines that can be used by any organization using machine learning to enrich collections description and access. The Humans in the Loop experiment builds directly on LC Labs’ sustained exploration of machine learning in cultural heritage for tasks such as pre-processing, segmentation, classification, clustering, transcription, and extraction.

The team chosen historical Yellow Pages telephone directories that have been digitized for three interactive workflows experiments. Each workflow asked users to draw boxes around ads and text and transcribe highlighted text. The goal was to “teach” the computer how to parse out information from a single digitized page and understand different content types like ads or a directory listing. 

Hear some of the Humans in the Loop team discuss how they see the project within an ethical, engaging, and useful context in the video embedded below or stream it here. 

VIDEO: Project Discussion: Where Do Humans Need To Be In The AI Loop?

• Dr Meghan Ferriter, Senior Innovation Specialist with the National Digital Initiatives at the Library of Congress
• Natalie Burclaff, Business Reference Specialist, Library of Congress
• Shawn Averkamp, Senior Consultant, AVP
• Kerri Willette, Senior Consultant, AVP

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