After a great presentation from our AAPB NDSR residents at the Society of American Archivists meeting in Portland last month, the 2016-2017 AAPB NDSR residencies have officially drawn to a close. Each host site has written up a report on the progress that was made on their digital archival practices over the course of the … Continue reading AAPB NDSR Final Station Reports
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Launching the American Archive of Public Broadcasting Wiki
The AAPB NDSR residencies have now ended, but we're very proud to launch the final project created by our AAPB NDSR residents: The American Archive of Public Broadcasting Wiki, a technical preservation resource guide for public media organizations. Selena Chau, Eddy Colloton, Adam Lott, Kate McManus, Lorena Ramírez-López, and Andrew Weaver have highlighted their collaboration … Continue reading Launching the American Archive of Public Broadcasting Wiki
Resident Webinar Recording Roundup
With Lorena Ramírez-López's presentation last month on "Whats, Whys, and How Tos of Web Archiving," our AAPB NDSR webinar series has now concluded. However, if you want to catch up on what you missed, I'm happy to share that recordings of all our resident-hosted webinars, along with slides and other resources, are now available for … Continue reading Resident Webinar Recording Roundup
AAPB NDSR April Webinar
Our last AAPB NDSR webinar is coming up this week! Whats, Whys, and How Tos of Web Archiving (Lorena Ramírez-López) Thursday, April 6 3:00 PM EST Basic introduction of: - what web archiving is 🤔 - why we should web archive ¯_(ツ)_/¯ - how to web archive 🤓 in a very DIY/PDA style that'll include … Continue reading AAPB NDSR April Webinar
AAPB NDSR March Webinars
We have two resident-hosted webinars coming up in March: Through the Trapdoor: Metadata & Disambiguation in Fanfiction, a case study (Kate McManus) Thursday, March 9th 3:00 PM EST Within the last twenty years, fanfiction writing has transfigured from disparate communities like webrings within Geocities communities into websites like AO3, providing a more intimate and interactive … Continue reading AAPB NDSR March Webinars
Professional Development Funds Report
One of the unexpected bonuses of this residency is the professional development fund that’s earmarked for each of us. Considering the entire residency is calibrated for professional development, this extra cushion is really nice. I’ve used it to renew my SAA membership. I’ve registered for the LibTech Conference in March. I also registered to audit … Continue reading Professional Development Funds Report
AAPB NDSR Webinars
We have another resident-hosted webinar coming up in a few weeks! Intro to Data Manipulation with Python CSV (Adam Lott) Thursday, February 23 3:00 PM EST Archivists frequently inherit huge amounts of messy and disorganized data. More often than not, this data does not fit into established organizational systems, and manually reconstructing data can be … Continue reading AAPB NDSR Webinars
Register for our upcoming webinars
We have two free, resident-hosted, open-to-the-public webinars coming up in January! Challenges of Removable Media in Digital Preservation (Eddy Colloton) Thursday, January 12th, 3:00 PM ET Removable storage media could be considered the most ubiquitous of digital formats. From floppy disks to USB flash drives, these portable, inexpensive and practical devices have been relied upon … Continue reading Register for our upcoming webinars
Webinar Recording Roundup
Every other Thursday, AAPB NDSR staff have invited a guest speaker to join us for a webinar for the AAPB NDSR community. We're taking a break in December before the residents take the reigns to schedule webinars of their own, starting in January -- but before signing off, we wanted to share the live recordings … Continue reading Webinar Recording Roundup
Catch up on the AAPB NDSR session at AMIA!
Last Saturday, six of our seven AAPB NDSR residents presented a panel at the Association of Moving Image Archivists conference on their experiences preserving media at public broadcasting organizations across the country. If you couldn’t attend the session, we invite you to catch up virtually with this summary of questions and Tweets around the panel! … Continue reading Catch up on the AAPB NDSR session at AMIA!
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