AVPS President, Chris Lacinak was recently quoted in the Rolling Stone article “File Not Found: The Record Industry’s Digital Storage Crisis” (written by David Browne and published in the December 23, 2010-January 11, 2011 issue). Mr. Browne interviewed Chris as an expert reference in the area of digital preservation and file management of audiovisual materials [...]
All -philes are a bit odd, but I’ve always thought of audiophiles as the mad scientists of the preservation world.
Personally I wouldn’t really want to rely on that scratched up copy of The Gods Must Be Crazy IV: Crazy in Hong Kong or a variable quality, cut-up YouTube version of Teen Witch as the sole formats to maintain my cultural heritage.
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.
While you were busy comparison shopping between a Kindle and a Nook this past month, paper books were still being published, including Daniel Eagan’s America’s Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry. He spoke about his review of the first 500 films to be placed on the National Film [...]
Though The Library of Congress Subject Headings and similar stricter taxonomies have gotten a bad rap from the tagging / folksonomy crowd, there is something necessary and wonderful in classification structures. And in a way, the Subject Headings are their own form of “social tagging” — exploring newly created headings reveals how they mark the [...]
One of the things that drove me into the field of archiving and preservation was this strong feeling that all people deserve equal access to information, culture, and education. Impossible? Maybe. Can I do something to increase access just a little bit more? Yes.
Among the directives in Congressional legislation establishing the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Board in 2000 are mandates requiring the Board to conduct a national study of the state of recorded sound preservation in the U.S., and to produce a subsequent National Record Sound Preservation Plan. Now that the national study is complete, Chris [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
