The
Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Open Source Committee is
happy to announce CURATEcamp: AVPres, an online, video conference-based CURATEcamp, focused specifically on the digital preservation and access needs of audiovisual collections.
The camp will take place on April 19, 2013 from 12pm EST through the
day (end time is still TBD). The sessions will be mostly held online
via Google Hangout, with physical sites helping to gather archivist
colleagues together locally. The outcome we're hoping for is a series of
concrete digital moving image preservation roadblocks or issues that
might be addressed via code and developer participation at a hackathon,
to be proposed to be a part of the AMIA conference in Richmond, Virginia
in November of this year.
You
do not need to be a digital preservation specialist or software
engineer to participate. The goal of CURATEcamp: AVPres is to collect
the challenges of caretakers of audiovisual collections and work toward
eventual software solutions to those. Everyone is welcome! Be ready to
share your challenges, and even better, some of your data.
More information on CURATEcamp: AVPres can be found on our wiki.
If you are interested in participating, we are now gathering topics
(please be as specific as possible!) and registrations via the online
survey linked here.
Organizers
contact information can be found there, in case you have questions
about participating. Find out more about other CURATEcamps here.
