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How To: Make An Inventory Of Your Audiovisual Collections
18 March 2019
If you have audiovisual assets in your collections, chances are you’ve heard the news: all your AV will self-combust by 2028.
Wisconsin Library Student Creates How-to Guides for AVP’s Exactly and Fixity
7 January 2019
During summer 2018, Kristina Warner, a student from the UW–Madison iSchool who was partnered with Outagamie Waupaca Library System (OWLS), Wisconsin, created two How-To user guides for Exactly and Fixity. These guides are now publicly available on the Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC) site. Thanks to Kristina for putting the guides together!
Tape, HDD, SSD, Cloud, DNA… A sneak peek into the future of digital storage
18 October 2018
Briefings from the Library of Congress Designing Digital Storage Architectures Meeting 2018 (DSA)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
The American Presidents
15 June 2018
By Mark E. Griffin
The Human Side of Technology (Revisited)
24 April 2018
A few years ago, we were working with a non-profit to help them select and implement a new enterprise digital asset management system (DAMS). This was a first for the small organization of about 200 staff across the US, and a few in the UK. And so, very early on, we sat down with them to have a frank conversation about the resources that it would take to not only implement the DAMS, but also for it to be successful over time. They asked, “Can we manage this with the current staff we have today?”
