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Insights 30 October 2021

Where Do Humans Need To Be In The AI Loop? AVP Case Study

In 2020 the Library of Congress Labs began the Humans in the Loop experiment to explore ways to responsibly combine crowdsourcing experiences and machine learning workflows. Through a public selection process, AVP was chosen as a…

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Insights 18 November 2009

Everything, Everywhere

“Do we really need to save everything from everybody?” In the first part of November 12th’s episode of Soundcheck broadcast on WNYC in New York (“Vintage Soul Gets a Second…

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Insights 13 January 2010

Facing Friendsterly Fire

I have a confession to make: Tradition holds that my lineage comes from one of the Lost Tribes of Friendster. I think this news story confirms the family lore. Internet…

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Insights 17 January 2013

Failure Is A Part Of Success

Earlier this week I attended the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) Annual Meeting (#metrocon13). This year’s meeting — or, technically, last year’s meeting, as it was originally scheduled for the week…

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Insights 16 January 2014

Fixity V0.3 Released

Version 0.3 of Fixity, the free fixity monitoring tool developed by AVPreserve, has been officially released for download on our Tools page and via GitHub. Fixity creates a manifest of files stored in…

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Insights 27 May 2010

Gettin’ Trashed

Ah, Memorial Day Weekend — the traditional beginning to the marketing of summer. In New York this means one thing: the city will now be overwhelmed by the invasive stench…

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Insights 3 February 2011

Getting Out Of The Fog

I had a mildly indulgent movie-watching weekend, having gorged on two DVDs (John Carpenter’s original The Fog and the first disc of The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. — I am not a prideful…

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Insights 17 May 2013

How Do Archives Measure Up?

Ask any archivist — or most anyone for that matter — what the importance of historical materials held by archives is and they will likely tell you that it is…

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Insights 28 June 2012

How Necessary Is Rehousing Archival Audio & Video?

When I was first out of school I interviewed for a project archivist position with a long-standing acting school in New York. The interview was with the director of the…

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Insights 27 January 2011

How To Make An Americký Quilt

When I was living in the Czech Republic a friend told me a story about installing cabinets in her apartment. The details escape me now (please don’t be disappointed) —…

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