All -philes are a bit odd, but I’ve always thought of audiophiles as the mad scientists of the preservation world.

The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) officially announced the release of the BWF MetaEdit tool today. AVPS was honored to be a part of developing this powerful new tool that enables the ability to review, edit, and export metadata in Broadcast WAVE files through use of a simple desktop application. What was once only [...]

Of course, living in a Northwest logging town, it wasn’t as if there were regular Russian classes available, so I turned to the only resource I knew — the children’s section at the County Library.

More and more I’ve been hearing stories of activities that sound everyday enough, such as software upgrades and file transfers between servers, that go horribly awry. Upgrades are incompatible with older files or files created with a different software and those legacy files are corrupted or become inaccessible… Directory structures are changed during a migration or systems clean up and relationships or dependencies are lost… Important folders are not moved to a new server or are deleted during the application of a retention policy…

10 Recommendations for Codec Selection and Management The increasing number of digital objects under our guardianship as archivists will require a greater convergence between IT and archival knowledge sets in order to develop effective preservation strategies. One area of great concern for the integrity and persistence of digital audio and video files is the selection [...]

AVPS founder and President Chris Lacinak has been invited to speak at two prestigious media preservation events in Washington, DC in the up-coming weeks. On Thursday, March 18 Chris will present during a day of talks as part of the Collaborations in Conserving Time-Based Art Colloquium co-sponsored by The Hirshhorn Museum and the Lunder Conservation [...]

History and memory, however, take a slower, more constant rate that looks at the bigger picture. History may or may not be concerned with the trends in communication and information sharing in the early 21st century, but it certainly will not care about who was the fastest to Tweet the news about Michael Jackson’s death.

The reality is that every system is vulnerable to this type of error regardless of its cost. And no matter how small the error, it is not an acceptable occurrence in a preservation transfer. The nature of digital interstitial errors makes them very difficult to identify using currently available methods and tools, and the truth is that they are often missed and overlooked. In short, the community needs better tools to identify and respond to errors such as these.

2009 has been a hard slog in many sectors. Why did Microsoft have to go and make it even worse?

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 [...]