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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?”
The Archives of PLACE — Fifth Annual AV Archives Night
1 March 2018
The Noise and the Signal
22 February 2018
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!
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:
