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AV Archives Night SAA 2015 Last Call
24 June 2015
AVPreserve is putting out one more call for submissions for our AV Archives Night to take place at the SAA 2015 conference in Cleveland, Ohio. AV Archives Night is a celebration of archives and audiovisual collections regionally located near the conference, as well as the a promotion of the work that archivists are doing to preserve our AV heritage. AV Archives Night 2015 will take place on Wednesday August 19th at a loft on High Avenue in Cleveland, just blocks away from the conference site. This is a free event open to any conference attendee or other student/professional in the area, and refreshments will be provided.
AVPreserve Releases MDQC Version 0.3 Update
15 June 2015
AVPreserve is pleased to announce the release of version 0.3 of our free MDQC tool. MDQC (Metadata Quality Control) is an open source utility that reads the embedded metadata of a file or directory and compares it against a set of rules for file specifications that are defined by the user for a specific file type. For instance, organizations have used MDQC on files being returned from a vendor or in-house lab to verify technical parameters applied in digitization or transcoding, such as bit depth, sample rate, codec, and aspect ratio, as well as non-technical parameters such as copyright statements, title information, identifiers and more. MDQC automates and minimizes the time needed to QC large batches of digitized or reformatted assets, and can be used on any file type supported by ExifTool and MediaInfo.
New Cloud Storage Vendor Profile
11 June 2015
AVPreserve is pleased to announce the release of the next profile in our Cloud Storage for Preservation Vendor Analysis series. The newest profile looks at Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service, or AWS S3. Like Amazon’s Glacier, S3 is a low cost solution that takes advantage of the power and size of the AWS server farms. However, whereas Glacier is a cold storage service, S3 is better suited for files that require frequent access and that require lower storage needs, such as for text, images, research data, and smaller audiovisual access copies.
AVPS Moving to Industry City
26 May 2015
After six-plus years in Midtown Manhattan, AVPS is moving offices to Industry City in Brooklyn. A former manufacturing, storage, and shipping hub located on the Brooklyn waterfront in the Sunset Park neighborhood, Industry City is an exciting new office and light manufacturing development zone that is a growing home to start-ups, restaurants, artists, local crafts and food producers, and many more. We’re very excited to join businesses like MakerBot, Blue Marble Ice Cream, and the Brooklyn Nets in this space primed for innovation and collaboration, two of the hallmarks of what drives the work we do.
AVPreserve Releases Two Metadata Management Tutorials for Preservation Week 2015
27 April 2015
The Things We Do: This Must Be The Wrong Lock Because I Have The Right Key
19 March 2015
Ah, the question. What do you do? Saying that we do consulting and software development isn’t inaccurate but it never feels adequate either, because it leaves out so much of what is critical about being good at what we do.
Indiana University Announces Release of MediaSCORE and MediaRIVERS
12 March 2015
Indiana University announces the release of free, open source media preservation prioritization software created in collaboration with AVPreserve.
AV Archives Night 2015 Call for Submissions
12 February 2015
After the great success of our First Annual AV Archives Night at SAA 2014 we’re excited to be planning our 2nd First Annual AV Archives Night party to take place August 19th during SAA 2015 in Cleveland. We learned a lot from our first go round, so this year promises to be much improved and just as fun. We have acquired a loft apartment minutes away from the conference center to have our presentation, and there will be free refreshments (additional contributions appreciated). We have a number of submissions so far but are looking for more!
Make It Happen
19 January 2015
As we saw in the recent #WhyAmIAnArchivist Twitter hashtag, for many people one of the inspirations to becoming an archivist is the thrill of discovering lost documents that unlock the past (or unlock an ancient vault full of gold or autopsied aliens). Life is an encoded puzzle written in invisible ink, and perhaps, just perhaps, that misplaced letter or oral history or receipt from 7-11 will shade in the image just a little bit more, enough to make out a fresh answer to the mystery or somehow better connect the present to the past.
Estimating Duration of Open Reel Audio
10 December 2014
UPDATE: Find a simple Excel spreadsheet Duration Calculator here.
