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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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
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
Who just md5deep-ed and redirected all them checksums to a .csv file? This gal
Resident log, NDSR date 20161004.1 Resident: Lorena Ramirez-Lopez from WHUT “who just md5deep-ed and redirected all them checksums to a .csv file? This gal " AND this is how I did it! Screenshot of my Twitter page (7 Sept. 2016, 11:07 am. Tweet) taken on 3 October 2016 on Mac OS X El Capitan Version … Continue reading Who just md5deep-ed and redirected all them checksums to a .csv file? This gal
Snapshot from the IASA Conference: Thoughts on the 2nd Day
Greetings from Day 2 of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) conference in Washington DC. This is my first time going to IASA, and I’m still not totally clear on the pronunciation of the acronym. “Eye-ah-suh” seems to be most popular but I’ve been hearing “Ee-ah-suh” too. This is likely due to … Continue reading Snapshot from the IASA Conference: Thoughts on the 2nd Day
Minnesota Books and Authors
I’ve been at MPR about two months now (where has the time gone) and I’m growing ever more comfortable with it, and with my role here. I’m excited to see how it changes me. You may recall from my last post that I spent my first week or so highlighting stories about Minnesota’s Native Writers … Continue reading Minnesota Books and Authors
Attend AAPB NDSR Immersion Week
AAPB NDSR Immersion Week took place July 25-28 -- we're not suggesting you travel in time, but now you can virtually attend seven lectures through WGBH Forum Network. Catch Jake Nadal on 'Thinking Like a Computer,' Stephanie Sapienza on project management, Snowden Becker on professional development, and more!
NDSA, data wrangling, and KBOO treasures
My first month at KBOO was about learning about the environment: the people, institutional knowledge, working styles and interaction, informational resources, and technology support. KBOO's specific environment is being taken into consideration so that a digital preservation project may thrive. KBOO’s current digital storage and archiving practices were evaluated in accordance to the National Digital … Continue reading NDSA, data wrangling, and KBOO treasures
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