Exactly: A New Tool for Digital File Acquisitions
13 January 2016
AVPreserve and the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries are excited to announce the release of a new tool for born-digital acquisition and delivery.
Library of Congress Releases AVPreserve’s New BIBFRAME Report On Technical Metadata For Audiovisual Resources
8 January 2016
AVPreserve is happy to announce the release of the results of our recent study (on behalf of the Library of Congress) of technical metadata for Audiovisual resources in the context of BIBFRAME.
BIBFRAME AV Assessment: Technical, Structural, And Preservation Metadata
8 January 2016
This report presents the findings of a study conducted by Bertram Lyons and Kara Van Malssen of AVPreserve, on behalf of the Library of Congress, to evaluate the existing state of technical, structural, and preservation metadata for audiovisual resources in the bibliographic environment in light of existing standards for audiovisual metadata, and to make recommendations about how BIBFRAME can support the expression of such information. This study follows on our May 2014 report titled, “BIBFRAME AV Modeling Study: Defining a Flexible Model for Description of Audiovisual Resources,” also commissioned by the Library of Congress, which explored and provided high-level recommendations on a flexible data model for audiovisual resources.
BIBFRAME AV Modeling Study: Defining A Flexible Model For Description Of Audiovisual Resources
8 January 2016
Lead by Kara Van Malssen, AVPreserve completed this report, commissioned by the BIBFRAME team within the Network Development and Standards Office at the Library of Congress, to evaluate the content description needs of the moving image and recorded sound communities and to specify how those requirements can be met within a semantic bibliographic data model designed generically to support all content types found in libraries.
The Creator and The Archivist
6 January 2016
A significant portion of certain Archivist’s job is processing collections — the activity of arranging and describing materials that have been deposited with an archive. At times this is simple. For the most part it is difficult. Consider your own paper and digital files, and imagine someone who doesn’t know you personally sifting through those files and computer desktop and download history and et cetera trying to make sense of what is there and what is important.
