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
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Adventures in Perceptual Hashing
Background One of the primary goals of my project at CUNY TV is to prototype a system of perceptual hashing that can be integrated into our archival workflows. Perceptual hashing is a method of identifying similar content using automated analysis; the goal being to eliminate the (often impossible) necessity of having a person look at … Continue reading Adventures in Perceptual Hashing
Professional Development Time Project: Audiorecorder
One of the incredible things about my NDSR residency is that it requires me to spend 20% of my time working on professional development. This allows me to devote quite a bit of time to learning skills and working on things of interest that would otherwise be outside the scope of my project. (For people … Continue reading Professional Development Time Project: Audiorecorder
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
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!)
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