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Are The Aesthetics Of Decay And The Aesthetics Of Preservation Compatible?
If decay is a beautiful thing, why are we working so hard to preserve all this archival material? A facetious statement, perhaps, but an exaggeration that underscores the fact that…
Are Archives Not Deaccessioning Enough?
At the Spring MARAC meeting during a panel on digital preservation, a presenter showed a slide of a Post-it note adhered to an inaccessible disc that said “Save in case of miracle.”…
Archivonomics
Interesting article in the New York Times this morning (interesting hmm-that-deserves-some-further-thought, not interesting well-think-of-a-thing-like-that-!) about the legal status of the personal papers belonging to FDR’s former personal secretary, Grace Tully (“Bankruptcy Complicates…
Archiving Ephemera — A Mini Manifesto (Semifesto)
The lyrics for Talking Heads song “Love For Sale” were, according to David Byrne’s liner notes in Sand in the Vaseline, a not entirely successful attempt to write a love song…
Archives Don’t Matter
…But Archival Environments Do Admittedly, when I foreswore the word ‘archive’ I offered no realistic (or unrealistic) alternative. The great benefit (and the great detriment) of such philosophical arguments is that one…
Andy Lanset Of WNYC Honored By NYART
We tweeted about it last week, but it would be remiss of us to not more fully congratulate Andy Lanset of WNYC Archives for being honored with the Award For Archival Achievement…
Audiovisual Metadata Platform Pilot Development (AMPPD) Final Project Report
This report documents the experience and findings of the Audiovisual Metadata Platform Pilot Development (AMPPD) project, which has worked to enable more efficient generation of metadata to support discovery and…
America’s Next Top Presidential Libraries Model
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) recently published their Report On Alternative Models For Presidential Libraries, an institutional review mandated by Congress to develop prospective archive models that would…
AVPS AMIA/IASA 2010
Charles Wilson Peale, John Wanamaker, Boyz II Men… The groundwork for Philly Cool has been slowly built up over the centuries; now AMIA is bringing that destiny to fruition. The…
AVPS At Createasphere Digital Asset Management Conference
The AVPS team is excited to be participating in the 2012 Createasphere Digital Asset Management Conference in New York City as both a presenter and an exhibitor. Createasphere provides training,…
