AVPS Participating In “Preservation Oriented Production Workflows” Session At The AMIA Annual Conference On November 13, 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 program description is as follows:

“Traditional workflow models pose great challenges to preserving and managing content over the long term. After years of grappling with them, these challenges have become all too evident to the AMIA community. A new model of production has begun to evolve from this awareness, and with some surprising consequences.”

We welcome all AMIA Conference attendees to join us as we share in our experiences while defining a new model of preservation oriented production workflows that will undoubtedly impact the future of archives.

The website for the 2008 Annual AMIA conference is here:
http://www.amiaconference.com/index.html

AVPS Participating In The 125th Annual Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention In San Francisco October 2-5, 2008

Chris Lacinak of AudioVisual Preservation Solutions, as well as a long term participating member of AES, will make several contributions to this year’s convention. He will be presenting at a tutorial titled “Audio Preservation at the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC)”, and will introduce Brad McCoy, who is a Senior Sound Engineer at The National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Culpeper, Va.

“This tutorial will discuss audio preservation at the Library of Congress’ National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC) that was recently completed in Culpeper, VA. It will also give an overview of the NAVCC, a state-of-the-art facility for storing and preserving recorded sound, video, and film materials.” The tutorial will take place on October 4, 11:00 am — 12:00 pm

In addition, Chris will be co-chairing the standards committee workgroup on audio metadata and will be working towards the standardization of the emerging audio metadata (SC 03-06)

Chris hopes to have an active and productive conference and looks forward to sharing what he learns from his colleagues.
The link to the 2008 AES Conference Website is here:
http://www.aes.org/events/125/

The Archivists Round Table Of Metropolitan New York (NYART) Is Hosting A Workshop On “Digital Asset Management And Institutional Repositories” On November 10th, 2008

Chris Lacinak, founder of AVPS and Education Coordinator at NYART is pleased to announce an upcoming workshop titled “Digital Asset Management and Institutional Repositories: Case Studies Addressing the Development and Implementation of Systems”, which will be held on November 10th at The NYU Kimmel Center in New York City.

This workshop consists of three presentations from a group of five experts. These presentations will present case studies of projects in which they have been involved. The projects span all relevant content and media types including documents, still images, moving image and sound. The presenters will share their valuable experiences, focusing on covering concerns and questions that many NYART members are, or will soon be asking as they embark on their own projects.

The Speakers will be Leala Abbot – Digital Asset Librarian, Enfatico; Einar Brendalen – Image Systems Analyst, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Jonathan Marmor – Manager of IT and Broadband Operations, Thirteen/WNET New York; David Rice – Digital Media Archivist, Thirteen/WNET New York; and Sunny Yoon – Digital Resources Coordinator, The City University of New York, Office of Library Services.

Development and implementation of these systems is a topic that has been, or will soon be tackled for the first time in many organizations. For those organizations already beyond this initial milestone, the challenge and experience serve as practice while they look forward to repeating the process many more times to come.