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• Analog Videotape Preservation Best Practices and Options Workshop

  • When
    22 May 2025
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    2:45 PM - 5:30 PM
  • Location
    via Zoom
  • Spaces left
    74

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  This workshop will cover specific examples of collaborative tools, spaces and workflows with a focus on the open source community and ethos. it will give an overview of the various tools and open projects that are available to aid institutions getting started with A/V Preservation. Specifically, MIPoPS Co-Executive-Director Libby Hopfauf will cover the unique qualities, risk factors, transfer tools, and preservation workflows for some of the most common formats found in archives: VHS, DV, 3/4" U-matic, and Betacam. Hopfauf will cover tools and techniques to preserve each of these formats based on their distinct needs and characteristics.

  Participants will leave this workshop with an intellectual understanding of videotape formats commonly found in archival collections. They will receive information and resources for further study and education, as well as practical examples for using simple techniques and tools to provide access to their collections, and an understanding of options for digitization, analog and digital preservation. They will also learn how to gather information to communicate with vendors and advocate for funding via grants or institutional buy-in.

  Instructor: Libby Savage Hopfauf is the Co-Executive Director at Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound and Audiovisual Archivist at Seattle Municipal Archives, in Seattle, Washington (working for both organizations since 2015). She received a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Washington and a BA in creative writing with a minor in sociology from Western Washington University.

  
  

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• ACA 2025 Conference Workshops

  • When
    9 Jun 2025
  • Location
    Richcraft Hall, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON

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  See full descriptions here - https://archivists.ca/Conference-Workshops

  1. Put on Your Printing Cap

  Spend a morning in the Book Arts Lab. This workshop will provide participants the opportunity to set wooden type and print their own multi-colour broadside to commemorate the ACA's 50th Anniversary. You will also acquire a better appreciation for how some of the items in your own archives and special collections  were produced. Instruction will be led by the lab's own Master Printer - Larry Thompson. Learn how type is set, inked and reacts to paper in the printing press. A rare opportunity to work in the busy lab on a project.

  Cost includes a $10 materials fee. Limited to 15 participants

  2. AI Tools for Audio Archives

  Incomplete metadata is one major barrier to accessibility of audio archives, in this hands-on workshop, we will examine a suite of tools for audio metadata enrichment.

  Participants should bring a laptop, and digital materials will be provided. Limit to 30 participants.

  3. Indigenous and Accountable AI for the Archival Professions

  The goal of this workshop is to explore how archivists can critically evaluate and incorporate new technologies like AI/ML into their work while still upholding their responsibilities as stewards of cultural memory.

  Limited to 40 participants.
  

  
  

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• Workshop: Web Archiving for Beginners

  • When
    3 Sep 2025
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    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    via Zoom
  • Spaces left
    50

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  This beginner-level workshop aims to empower archivists to begin preserving web content using accessible and user-friendly tools. As the collective cultural record moves increasingly online, the issue of long-term preservation of web content is more pressing than ever. This workshop is catered to community archives and other cultural heritage institutions with limited resources looking to start a web archiving project. This workshop will introduce participants to the practice of web archiving and provide guidance to start building web collections on a small scale. It aims to encourage active participation through a mix of hands-on practice, live demonstrations, and discussions. The workshop will cover some helpful concepts and terms in web archiving, provide sample workflows to guide a web archiving project and give participants the opportunity to practice archiving web pages using open-source web archiving tools.

  Instructors: Sarah Lake and Helene Brousseau

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