AVPS AMIA/IASA 2010

Monday, August 16th, 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 Association of Moving Image Archivists annual conference will be held at the historic Loews Philadelphia Hotel, November 2-6, 2010. In celebration of AMIA’s 20th anniversary [...]

Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) 2009 Accessioning & Managing Born Digital Video

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Born Digital File-Based Video recording is pervasive. Tape is not even an option on many new cameras being sold today. This shift has made accessioning and management of file based content and the associated challenges a new reality to archives. This presentation offers insights into the challenges that born digital file-based video brings to your [...]

AMIA! Conference! 2009!

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

But it was 2am, I was groggy from working on my thesis for 12 hours straight, and The Pixies were playing in St Paul the week of the conference. I bought my plane and concert tickets and went back to writing.

Digital Asset Management with Free and Open Tools

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

David Rice and Mike Castleman represented Democracy Now! at the 2008 AMIA Digital Asset Symposium presenting on the integration of open source technology and Free Software in efforts to record, disseminate, and archive moving image media. The presentation included references to Tools for Recording: dvgrab, cron, vidiTools for Transcoding and Wrapping: ffmpeg, mplayer, MP4Box, ffmpegX, [...]

AVPS Participating in AMIA Conference in St. Louis Nov. 4-7, 2009

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

AudioVisual Preservation Solutions is pleased to be contributing to the advancement of archive community knowledge afforded by participation in three panels at the annual conference of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) being held in St. Louis, Missouri this November. The three sessions that we will be chairing and presenting at are as follows: [...]

AVPS Participating in “Preservation Oriented Production Workflows” Session at the AMIA Annual Conference on November 13, 2008

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Chris Lacinak of AudioVisual Preservation Solution will be speaking at a session at the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) annual meeting in Savannah on the topic of “Preservation Oriented Production Workflows”. He will be chairing a panel joined by Brian Hoffman and Kara Van Malssen of NYU, and Jonathan Marmor of WNET. The summary [...]

AVPS is recognized by the Association for Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) in their Annual Report

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

AudioVisual Preservation Solutions (AVPS) was pleased to receive acknowledgment from the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) in their annual report for contributions made to the organization. Chris Lacinak was recognized for representing AMIA at the National Recording Preservation Board Hearings. Chris was also acknowledged for his work with Moving Image Collections (MIC), where he [...]

Audio Recording of AVPS Oral Testimony at NRPB Hearing Available Online

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

As previously noted, Chris Lacinak of AudioVisual Preservation Solutions represented the Association for Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and the Audio Engineering Society (AES) at the National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB) Hearings in December of 2006. He provided oral testimony as well as written submission to the NRPB. The oral testimony is now available to hear [...]

AVPS to Coordinate a Session on Audiovisual Asset Assessment at the 2007 AMIA Annual Conference

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

AudioVisual Preservation Solutions is coordinating a session for the AMIA Annual Conference which will take place during November 2007 in Rochester, New York. The session is based on the premise that assessing audiovisual signals stored on magnetic media has proven to be an evasive task. This session aims to provide information and direction that will [...]

AVPS represents AMIA and AES at National Recording Preservation Board Hearing

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Chris Lacinak of AudioVisual Preservation Solutions (AVPS) was honored and privileged to receive a request from the Association of Moving Image Archivist (AMIA) Executive Director , Keith LaQua and President, Janice Simpson to represent the AMIA community at the New York Hearing of the National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB) held on December 19th , 2006. [...]