AVP Webinar Series 2018 in Spanish
19 March 2018
AVP is pleased to announce the launching of a free webinar series in Spanish with a special focus on digital preservation. We will present some of our free tools and their latest developments. Additionally, we will invite experts in the region to talk about topics related to digital preservation, such as digitization, digital preservation systems and tools, digital preservation fundamentals, case studies, and more! Each 45-minute webinar will consist of a presentation followed by questions and answers.
Announcing Release of Fixity 1.0
8 March 2018
AVP is pleased to announce the release of Fixity 1.0! Fixity is a free file monitoring and attendance tool that allows users to schedule regular scans of files and folders to generate reports on new, changed, moved, renamed or missing files. Additionally, generated reports can be automatically sent to user-defined email addresses to alert of any changes found in scanned files.
The Archives of PLACE — Fifth Annual AV Archives Night
1 March 2018

The Noise and the Signal
22 February 2018
We Are AVP | Somos AVP
24 January 2018

***Versión en español abajo***
AVP Holiday Card – 2017
31 December 2017
Artwork by Jenny Green from Shu Shu Design (kinegram)
DPN + AVP Collaboration wins 2017 NDSA Innovation Award
25 October 2017
We received some wonderful news today: it was announced at the opening plenary of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Digital Preservation conference in Pittsburgh, PA that the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) received the 2017 NDSA Innovation Award in the organization category, in particular for the Digital Preservation Workflow Curriculum that we collaborated on with them! The Innovation Awards were established by the NDSA “to recognize and encourage innovation in the field of digital preservation stewardship. These awards highlight and commend creative individuals, projects, organizations, and future stewards demonstrating originality and excellence in their contributions to the field of digital preservation.” We are truly honored and humbled by this recognition!
Newsletter – Past Issues
24 October 2017
- AVP Newsletter #50
- AVP Newsletter #49
- AVP Newsletter #48
- AVP Newsletter #47
- AVP Newsletter #46
- AVP Newsletter #45
- AVP Newsletter #44
- AVP Newsletter #43
- AVP Newsletter #42
- AVP Webinar Series Launch
- AVP Newsletter #41
- AVP Newsletter #40
- AVP Newsletter #39
- AVP Newsletter #38
- AVP Newsletter #37
- AVP Newsletter #36
- AVP Newsletter #35
- AVP Newsletter #34
- AVP Newsletter #33
- AVP Newsletter #32
- AVP Newsletter #31
- AVP Newsletter #30
- AVP Newsletter #29
- AVP Newsletter #28
- AVP Newsletter #27
- AVP Newsletter #26
- AVP Newsletter #25
- AVP Newsletter #24
- AVP Newsletter #23
- AVP Newsletter #22
- AVP Newsletter #21
- AVPreserve Newsletter #20
- AVP Newsletter #19
- AVP Newsletter #18
- AVP Newsletter #17
- AVP Newsletter #16
- AVP Newsletter #15
- Disaster Response Resources
- AVP Newsletter #14
- AVP Newsletter #13
- AVP Newsletter #12
- AVP Newsletter #11
- AVP Newsletter #10
- AVP Newsletter #9
- AVP Newsletter #8
- AVP Newsletter #7
- AVP Newsletter #6
- AVP Newsletter #5
- AVP Newsletter #4
- AVP Newsletter #3
- AVP Newsletter #2
- AVP Newsletter #1
Bert Lyons on “Lost in the Stacks”
12 October 2017
Listen to Episode 298 of Lost in the Stacks, featuring an interview with AVP’s Senior Consultant Bert Lyons talking about Exactly.
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: