The following was submitted by Audio Visual Metadata and Training Data intern, Jordan Errico. For the archivist, corrupted or damaged materials are more than just a workflow headache—the potential loss of information is a setback to cultural or historic conservation. At the same time, insight may still be found in the process of corruption. As an … Continue reading When Discs Fail: Insights Gathered from the Preservation and Corruption of Optical Media
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Public Media Meets Horror: Archival Picks for Every Fright Fan
Do you love horror movies? Whether you’re into psychological thrillers, supernatural hauntings, or historical horror, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting’s newly launched Bumps in the Night Collection has something to pair with your favorite fright flicks. So curl up with a blanket, maybe turn a light on… and dive into these eerie, real-life programs … Continue reading Public Media Meets Horror: Archival Picks for Every Fright Fan
Practical Steps to Preserving Your Station’s Programming: A Guide
Public media stations are the keepers of powerful stories—local voices, community histories, and cultural moments that deserve to be preserved and shared. But with aging video and audio formats, staff turnover, and evolving technology, many of these stories are at risk of being lost. The good news? You don’t have to do it alone. Start … Continue reading Practical Steps to Preserving Your Station’s Programming: A Guide
Ideas of Our Time, Preserved for Tomorrow: Welcoming TTBOOK to the Archive
For 35 years, Wisconsin Public Radio’s Peabody Award-winning series To the Best of Our Knowledge (TTBOOK) has explored big ideas and beautiful questions. Although the program will sunset this fall, its legacy lives on in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. The newly launched To the Best of Our Knowledge Special Collection features over 1,000 … Continue reading Ideas of Our Time, Preserved for Tomorrow: Welcoming TTBOOK to the Archive
Digitizing History: My Internship Experience at PBS North Carolina
The following was submitted by EBSCO Audiovisual Archive Fellow, Ron Harris. I’m Ron Harris, a graduate of the University of Alabama's School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) and an EBSCO Audiovisual Archive Fellow. While pursuing my graduate degree, I was located in Raleigh, North Carolina, where I interned at the Media Archives of PBS North … Continue reading Digitizing History: My Internship Experience at PBS North Carolina
Abstraction, Aura, and Archives: Postmodern Considerations of Digital Preservation in the Age of AI
The following was submitted by Audio Visual Metadata and Training Data intern, Isabella Juhaeri. The traditional understanding of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence is that we (the humans) bestow our authentic and true knowledge on the ignorant and brainless machine. We explain what truth is to the machine with the hopes that it will learn … Continue reading Abstraction, Aura, and Archives: Postmodern Considerations of Digital Preservation in the Age of AI
Be Not Afr(AI)d: A GBH Intern’s Perspective on the Future of AI in Archives
The following was submitted by Audio Visual Metadata and Training Data intern, Gabrielle Keen. The year is 2008. I walk into a movie theater in my Michigan hometown, not knowing that the animated sci-fi movie I am about to watch about a trash-compacting robot will cement my view on artificial intelligence for the next decade … Continue reading Be Not Afr(AI)d: A GBH Intern’s Perspective on the Future of AI in Archives
Beyond the Screen: Machine Learning and Metadata Creation at GBH Archives
The following was submitted by Fall 2024 Metadata and Training Data Intern, Madison Courtney. My time interning at GBH challenged my preconceived notions surrounding machine learning, cataloguing and the way we think about humans and machines working together in the future. The first week of my internship a game plan emerged for the next 12 … Continue reading Beyond the Screen: Machine Learning and Metadata Creation at GBH Archives
UCLA Preservation Perspectives: Media Archival Studies Students Recover Audio Files for the AAPB’s “This Way Out” Collection
MLIS student Sydney Kyser demonstrates film projector operation with CPAH research intern Stephanie Hukles in the UCLA Department of Information Studies Media Preservation Lab. Photo by Casey Winkleman. Students training in the Media Archival Studies specialization of UCLA's Master of Library and Information Science degree program recently assisted in recovering over one hundred otherwise lost … Continue reading UCLA Preservation Perspectives: Media Archival Studies Students Recover Audio Files for the AAPB’s “This Way Out” Collection
From Radio Reel to Digital Appeal: Preserving Micrologus with the AAPB
This month, we had the privilege of speaking with Jacey Kepich, Research and Engagement Librarian at Case Western Reserve University, who played a pivotal role in the preservation journey of the Micrologus radio program with the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Micrologus, a nationally syndicated program by National Public Radio from 1980 to 1998, holds … Continue reading From Radio Reel to Digital Appeal: Preserving Micrologus with the AAPB
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