Every other Thursday, we've invited a guest speaker to join us for a webinar for the AAPB NDSR community. Now you can catch up some of our most recent webinars by watching the live recording or viewing the slides. Imposter Syndrome Past NDSR residents Jen LaBarbera, now Head Archivist at Lambda Archives of San Diego, … Continue reading Webinar Recording Roundup
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40 Years, 40 Films, 40 Weeks: Way of the Warrior
This week's featured Vision Maker Media film is "Way of the Warrior," an exploration of the Native American tradition of military service, including the stories of Native American veterans who served in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam. The program honors the endurance and sacrifice of individuals such as Mitchell … Continue reading 40 Years, 40 Films, 40 Weeks: Way of the Warrior
Vietnam, Oral Histories, and the WYSO Archives Digital Humanities Symposium
October 20-22 marked The Past Made Present: The 2016 WYSO Archives Digital Humanities Symposium (simply referred to as the symposium for the rest of this post), an event that has been intertwined with my residency work since my first day at WYSO. While the symposium consisted mainly of work being done in the Miami Valley, … Continue reading Vietnam, Oral Histories, and the WYSO Archives Digital Humanities Symposium
NDSR goes to AMIA
If you're going to be at AMIA in Pittsburgh this year, we hope you'll join the AAPB NDSR residents for a discussion session "Planning for Preservation in Public Media: An AAPB NDSR Update," at 11:00 AM on Saturday, November 12. Over the course of the session, the residents will be discussing the following questions: What … Continue reading NDSR goes to AMIA
Forty Years, Forty Films, Forty Weeks
With the beginning of November, we’re thrilled to welcome the start of “Forty Years, Forty Weeks” – a collaboration between Vision Maker Media and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting to celebrate Vision Maker Media’s 40th anniversary. Each week for the next forty weeks, a different film featuring Native voices from Native producers will be … Continue reading Forty Years, Forty Films, Forty Weeks
Snakes in the Archive
It was in graduate school when I got my first lessons in programming. The language was Python, which I later discovered to be the introductory language for many up and coming developers. Having dove into a variety of tools since then, I completely understand why. Python emphasizes the creation of concise, human-readable code. With its … Continue reading Snakes in the Archive
Home Movie Day
Please feel free to check out this blog post on my personal website, eddycolloton.com 1973-1974 - Water Skiing and Snow Skiing from Eddy Colloton on Vimeo. My grandfather, James Colloton, Sr. (1926-2014), or "Papa" to my cousins and me, recorded home movies of my dad and his siblings with his 8mm film camera. Christmas mornings, … Continue reading Home Movie Day
Learning GitHub (or, if I can do it, you can too!)
Resident: Andrew Weaver, CUNY TV As the CUNY TV Archives makes heavy use of GitHub for their workflows, in my residency I have had the opportunity to learn about more efficient ways to use this tool. GitHub is a service that not only allows for the hosting of information, but for tracking of changes to … Continue reading Learning GitHub (or, if I can do it, you can too!)
IASA – Remixed
IASA was wonderful, especially once we finished our panel (I hope I didn’t talk too fast, I tend to do that when I get nervous). I came home with my head full of ideas and experiences, and I’ll definitely benefit as all of this knowledge leaks out over my desk in the next days and … Continue reading IASA – Remixed
IASA Day 1 and Voice to Text Recognition
AAPB NDSR update in podcast form. Day 1 of IASA, the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archivists in Washington, D.C. Duration: 00:05:31 *In the audio, I quote directly from resources listed below, namely the Traditional Knowledge paper and the Mukurtu website. See speech to text software comparisons of IBM Watson, Popup Archive, and Trint.com below. … Continue reading IASA Day 1 and Voice to Text Recognition
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