List of open workflows and resources for A/V archiving. Please contribute!
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- Andy Warhol Museum Digital Strategy: A versioned digital strategy repository for The Andy Warhol Museum.
- Archivematica Development Wiki
- Collective Access Community: Guides and Workflows
- Digital Processing, Bentley Historical Library: Workflow for ingesting digital objects at the Bentley Historial Library.
- Format Migrations at Harvard
- Library Workflow Exchange: A site designed to help librarians share workflows and best practices across institutions.
- Personal Digital Archiving Day Kit: Robust documentation around organizing and hosting a Personal Archiving Day, including A/V resources.
- UCLA Quality Control Workflow: (PDF)
- University of Michigan ICPSR: "This guide describes digital preservation practices at ICPSR, the primary objective of which is to ensure long-term access to the more than 500,000 files in our collection."
- University of Washington Media Center: Step by step documentation of open-reel audio digitization workflow in place at the University of Washington Libraries Media Center.
- VideoPreservation Website: Site to encourage the preservation of historic video using the mature technology of digital capture.
- York University Preservation Documentation: Version controlled draft versions of York University Libraries' digital preservation policy and documentation.
- Brooklyn Public Library Info Commons
- DC Public Library Memory Lab: How to transfer formats (specific to their setup but applicable elsewhere).
- Indiana University Scholar Commons Digitization Lab
- Kalamazoo Public Library The Hub
- On Personal Archiving Labs: Blog post by Sam Abrams on setting up a personal archiving lab for Madison Public Library.
- UW Media Arcade: A digital A/V makerspace that supports media creation, preservation and use.
- University of Wisconsin-Madison RADD How-to guides to digitizationa
- XFR Collective
- analog-inspection: List of analog media inspection templates/forms.
- audio-digitization-toolkit: A list of resources for setting up an audio digitization workflow.
- A/V Artifact Atlas: For use in the identification and definition of the technical issues and anomalies that can afflict audio and video signals.
- cable-bible: A guide to cables and connectors used for audiovisual tech.
- Cleaning Digibetas
- Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry (COPTR): COPTR describes tools useful for long term digital presesrvation and acts primarily as a finding and evaluation tool to help practitioners find the tools they need to preserve digital data.
- Digital POWRR Tool Grid 2.0: An ubergrid of tools useful in digital preservation, and their role in the preservation lifecycle.
- Libraries Sharing Code: Wiki list of libraries sharing their code on GitHub or on other open repositories.
- media-id-posters: Visualized summaries of physical objects for A/V archivists.
- No Time To Wait! Symposium: Documentation around conference including slides and videos on talks focused around Matroska and FFV1 workflows.
- QCTools Cheat Sheet
- UW Audio Preservation and Resoration Guide Large aggregation of Audio resources with descriptions.
- Carnegie Hall: Post-digitization quality control workflow documentation and scripts; scripts and overview documentation for generating linked data from event records; and scripts and documentation detailing workflow for batch linking metadata records from disparate CSVs to files.
- CUNY mediamicroservices: Suite of bash scripts for A/V archiving
- ffmprovisr: Repository of useful FFmpeg command lines for archivists!
- IFIscripts: Scripts for video/DCP/image sequences/fixity for use in the IFI Irish Film Archive.
- National Library of New Zealand (NLNZ): Scripts for generating METS records, Rosetta-compliant SIPs, etc.
- New York Times video microservices: Documentation and links to services scripts.
- Puget Sound and Vision Audio Scripts: Bash scripts/documentation used at University of Washington for moving from a digitized WAV file to a package including BWF, TIFFs and derivatives.
- Rockefeller Center Archives transfer_workflow: Digital media transfer workflow documentation.
- ucsb-src-microservices: Post-processing scripts we use at UCSB Special Research Collections AVLab.
- U.S. National Archives
- WGBH preservation-workflows: Useful scripts to help automate common WGBH Media Library and Archive digital preservation workflows into a single preserve.rb Ruby script.
- Yale University Libraries: Manuscripts and Archives GitHub.
- Audacity: Free open source digital audio workstation. Supports recording and editing of audio.
- BWF MetaEdit: Allows the embedding of BWF metadata in WAV files.
- MediaConch: Tool for quickly creating and comparing policies for digital media to ensure compliance with chosen standards.
- MediaInfo: Essential tool for quick analysis of A/V file metadata.
- qctools: Enables extensive analysis of digitized video for quality control purposes.
- vrecord: Open source tool for analog video digitization. Includes a variety of virtual scopes. Requires Blackmagic hardware.
- XLD: Tool for lossless transcoding of various audio formats. Useful for error free CD ripping.