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Exactly version 0.1.2 released!
Today a new version of Exactly is available for download and use. The newest upgrades include added support for FTP connection stability and a first-attempt at gathering file system metadata for…
There Will Be No Digital Dark Age
by Bert Lyons Originally posted on “Issues and Advocacy” Archivists on the Issues is a forum for archivists to discuss the issues faced today. Below is a post from Bertram Lyons…
AV Archives Night 2016: Call for submissions
Fritzi Scheff demonstrating Magnavox for Fifth Liberty Loan in New York City, 1895. Courtesy of the Powerhouse Museum. Following on the success of AV Archives Nights in 2014 and…
Digital Asset Symposium on May 4th in NYC
AVPreserve President, Chris Lacinak has put together a stellar program for the Digital Asset Symposium (DAS) being held at Scandinavia House’s Victor Borge Theatre on May 4th. DAS is a unique international event that brings together…
Possession is nine-tenths of the law. Metadata is nine-tenths of possession.
For centuries, the verbs to handle, to use, and to wield have been used in reference to physical objects. Today, the handholds created by metadata allow us to employ these…
What is the chemistry of digital preservation?
When we develop preservation strategies for paper-based materials an essential consideration is the underlying chemistry of the physical materials themselves. Paper is an organic compound, made of cellulose fibers, or,…
Amy Rudersdorf Joins the AVPreserve Team as Senior Consultant
We are very excited to welcome Amy Rudersdorf to the staff of AVPreserve in the Madison office. Having built and led multiple departments charged with providing data management and preservation…
Exactly: A New Tool for Digital File Acquisitions
AVPreserve and the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries are excited to announce the release of a new tool for born-digital acquisition and…
Library of Congress Releases AVPreserve’s New BIBFRAME Report On Technical Metadata For Audiovisual Resources
AVPreserve is happy to announce the release of the results of our recent study (on behalf of the Library of Congress) of technical metadata for Audiovisual resources in the context of BIBFRAME. Audiovisual…
The Creator and The Archivist
A significant portion of certain Archivist’s job is processing collections — the activity of arranging and describing materials that have been deposited with an archive. At times this is simple….
