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Seth Paris

admin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:33:41 +0000

Seth Paris is a Media Preservation Specialist performing hands-on work and researching funding sources for preservation projects. Seth’s experience as an accomplished musician and dedication to the preservation of recorded music led him to Accra, Ghana with the support from a 2007-2008 Fulbright Grant, the NYU Office of Global Education, and the Africana Studies Program, where he worked with the music archive of Kofi Ghanaba (“The Divine Drummer”). Seth is a graduate of the NYU Steinhardt School of Education with a degree in Jazz Performance and is an experienced woodwind instrumentalist, music educator and audio engineer. Aside from his various duties at AVPS, Seth performs regularly in New York City with Roosevelt Dime and the Silver Dollar Horns, the Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble,and leads his own 16 piece brass band called Don’t Give Small Money Chance Brass Band.

Peter Oleksik

Josh — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:32:26 +0000

Peter Oleksik is Assistant Media Conservator at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) with a focus on analog and digital video art works. His work with media collections spans the multifaceted aspects of hands-on reformatting, asset and collection management, cataloging, and facilities design and installation. Peter specializes in working with organizations and artists to provide access oriented solutions that support reformatting for preservation and distribution of legacy materials. Past and present projects include work with Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Pearl Jam, Dischord Records and Fred Armisen. Peter earned his MA in Moving Image Archiving & Preservation from NYU and his BA in Cinema Studies from the University of Southern California.

David Rice

admin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:26:47 +0000

David Rice is Archivist with the City University of New York (CUNY). He continues to consult with AVPS on a wide range of preservation topics, focusing on open source applications, digital video codecs and formats, asset and metadata management, high efficiency reformatting, quality control, cataloging, collection management, and metadata technology for archival applications. David has worked as the Digital Media Archivist at Thirteen/WNET and was the first archivist for the daily news production Democracy Now. David is a graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation.

Memberships & Advisories

Association of Moving Image Archivists News, Documentary, and Television Committee

Alliance for Community Media Server Standards Working Group

PBCore Resource Group

Papers & Presentations

“Metadata Roundtable II: Best Practices” – Open Video Conference, 2009

“Controls, Ownership and Archiving Content” – Alliance for Community Media, 2009

“PBCore: What is it good for?” – Association of Moving Image Archvists Conference, 2008

“Digitizating Video: 101″ – Association of Moving Image Archvists Conference, 2008

“Preservation Orientated Production Workflows” – Association of Moving Image Archvists Conference, 2008

“Digital Asset Management and Institutional Repositories” – The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York Workshop, 2008

“Video Archiving Strategy” – Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s Community Media Series, 2008

Digital Asset Management with Free and Open Source Tools AMIA: Digital Asset Symposium, 2008

“Access to Access: Preserving Public Access Television” – Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference, 2007

“Metadata Automation and Digital Tape Preservation Best Practices” – Digital Library Federation Conference, 2007

“Activist Radio Archives” – Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, 2007

“Interns in Independent Archives: New Media and New Models” – Association of Moving Image Archives, 2007

“Cataloging Video for Access and Preservation: Real World Scenarios” – Association of Moving Image Archives, 2007

“Advocacy Video and the Internet” – Culture, Commerce, and Public Media, 2006

“Archiving Grassroots Media: How to Collect, Preserve, and Access” – NYC Grassroots Media Conference, 2005

“Staying Indie: The Struggle to Maintain Independent Media” – Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference, 2005

Kara Van Malssen

Josh — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:21:39 +0000

Kara Van Malssen focuses on helping organizations develop effective lifecycle management strategies to support long-term access and innovative use of audiovisual content. She specializes in digital asset management, metadata modeling and standards implementation, digital repository development, and disaster preparedness. Her past and continuing consultancies include organizations such as the Museum of Modern Art, NPR, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Never one to sit still, Kara is active internationally as a trainer with ICCROM’s Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections (SOIMA) initiative, for which she has taught in Brazil and India, and NYU’s Audiovisual Preservation Exchange (APEX) program, which has taken her on numerous visits to Ghana to conduct workshops. She is also co-chair of the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ International Outreach Committee. Kara holds an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University.

Joshua Ranger

admin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:20:24 +0000

Joshua Ranger specializes in data analysis and communication in support of collection management, planning, and resource development. Recent projects have included managing large scale inventories across multiple locations, analysis and conformance of legacy catalog systems, and developing new strategies for utilizing data in collection assessment and advocacy, and he is a frequent contributor to our blog. Joshua initially found/honed his love of information management in the worlds of early American literature, insurance, and the Walt Whitman Electronic Archive. He has earned MAs in Moving Image Archiving & Preservation from NYU and in American Studies from the University of Virginia, and his BA in English from the University of Oregon.

Christopher Lacinak

admin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:26:31 +0000

Christopher Lacinak has consulted on a broad range of preservation and access topics for moving image and sound collections and organizations. Some of his past and current clients include the Library of Congress, Stanford University and the The Museum of Modern Art. Chris is a former Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of VidiPax, a moving image and sound preservation reformatting facility, and is an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Masters Degree program. Chris continues to remain active and chair committees in relevant and standards forming organizations such as the Audio Engineering Society, Association of Moving Image Archivists and the International Organization for Standardization. Chris is well known for his work in developing high efficiency reformatting systems, quality control systems, metadata standards, assessment, prioritization and workflow design.

Memberships & Advisories

Advisor to:

National Recording Preservation Board

Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative

NYU Survey and Assessment Project

Image Permanence Institute Magnetic Media Study

Sound Directions Project

EVIA project

ISO TC42 WG-5, Task Group 5 – Moving Image and Sound Media

Chair of:

Audio Engineering Society (AES) Standards Committee on Audio Metadata, 2008 – present

AES Technical Committee on Archiving, Restoration & Digital Libraries, 2003 – 2008

New York Archivists Round Table Education Committee, 2007 – 2009

Member of:

Advanced Media Workflow Association

Association of Moving Image Archivists

Association for Recorded Sound Collections Technical Committee

International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Technical Committee

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

New York Archivists Roundtable

Papers & Presentations

“Trends, Legacy Reformatting & Accessioning Born Digital Content” – ALA Conference, 2010″

“Accessioning & Managing File-Based Born-Digital Video” – AMIA Conference, 2009″

“Strategies for Preserving Born Digital Audio” – ARSC Conference, 2009

“Preservation Oriented Production” – AMIA Conference, 2008

“Preserving Your Moving Image and Sound Collections” – NYART Workshop, 2008

“Dynamic Media Panel Discussion” – NARA Preservation Conference 2007

“Quality Assessment of the Digital Surrogate” – NARA Preservation Conference 2007

“Video Preservation Training, Development of Resources and Tools” – AMIA Conference 2006

“Building Community through Moving Image Collections (MIC)” – AMIA Conference 2006

“Preservation: The Shift from Format to Strategy” – 121st AES Convention, 2006

“The State of Audiovisual Metadata” – AMIA Conference, 2005

“Audio Digitization” – Oral History Association in the Mid-Atlantic Region Workshop, 2005

“Preservation, Archiving and Restoration: A Look at Practical Application” – AES Convention, 2005