AMIA Pathways Fellowship Workshop

Association of Moving Image Archivists
July, 2024

INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL PRESERVATION

This 90-minute course on digital preservation introduced to the principles and practices essential for safeguarding digital assets over time. Participants explored key strategies, tools, and challenges in preserving digital content, ensuring its accessibility and integrity for future use.

Digital Preservation Workshops

Caring for Digital Art Objects
July, 2022 & October 2019

IT'S ABOUT TIME!
Workshops in Time-based Media (TBM) Art Conservation

The Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU offered a Digital Preservation Workshop for students and professionals working with digitized or born-digital collections, audiovisual media, and computer-based artworks. 

2021 Webinar

With Annie Schweikert and Ethan Gates
When a reel of film or videotape breaks, we can examine the reel, diagnose the problem, and repair it. What about when digital files degrade? This webinar will provide an introduction to digital files—their structure, specifications, history, identification, and uses—and will explore potential fixes to “broken” files. Attendees will learn about the organization of data in common audiovisual storage formats, how to recognize those formats, and how to look closer at a file.

AMIA Digital Asset Symposium

June 6, 2018

Archiving Human Rights Video
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Human rights archives form around collections of socially significant content requiring careful, considerate preservation. Media assets acquired for production purposes may be used as evidence, necessitating thoughtful archival workflows with special attention to preservation practice. Balancing daily production demands with the need to preserve evidentiary data, Human Rights Watch’s Media Archive borrows methodologies from digital preservation, information security, and digital forensics to ensure data integrity. This presentation explores the integration of preservation best practices with production and archiving of human rights video.

On Janus and Justice

CUNY Graduate Center / Center for the Humanities
Fri, Oct 21, 2016

Archives, Access, and Ethical Use of Video Evidence
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This panel discussion will bring together archivists, activists, and law enforcement agency experts to discuss the challenges of keeping video evidence, and the multiple readings of such evidence in the public and judicial spheres. They will provide historical context for the use of recorded media as evidence in the courts, considerations for ethical use of material that can be violent, disturbing, or otherwise harmful to its viewers and subjects, and a review of the scope and limitations of the open records request process as it applies to new video materials.

Where Theory Meets Practice: Research in Audiovisual Archiving and Preservation

How do practitioners and educators keep up with rapid changes in the field of audiovisual archiving and preservation? This workshop presentation examined research and recent publications that address our constantly evolving work. Academic research and theory support daily preservation practice, as do contributions, publications and online posts from practitioners. Nicole presented research from MIAP students and alumni, specifically highlighting work relating to digital preservation.