2019 Workshops and Symposia

8:00am – 12:00pm  |  Fee: $75
Python for AV File Management
Benjamin Turkus, New York Public Library
Nick Krabbenhoeft, New York Public Library

Python is often referred to as the “swiss army knife” of computer programming languages, capable of meeting the needs of nearly any task with its characteristic ease-of-use, simplicity, and efficiency. In this half-day workshop, Nick Krabbenhoeft and Ben Turkus, two members of NYPL’s Research Libraries, will go full Leatherman, introducing participants to all the various ways that Python can have a transformative effect on media digitization workflows. Designed for archivists working with digital/digitized media collections of any size, this will be a practical and skills-oriented effort, offering participants a thorough grounding in Python basics, and an introduction to a number of Python tools that allow for the general manipulation and analysis of media. Specific modules/libraries/tools will include: the os, glob, re, subprocess, shutil, csv and json modules; FFmpeg; pymediainfo/MediaConch; pandas; matplotlib; and seaborn.

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9:00am – 5:00pm |  Fee:  $125
Audiovisual & Preservation Technology Basics for Non-Engineers
James Snyder, Library of Congress

This workshop will focus on providing a good technical basis, in plain English, for those who do not already have audiovisual engineering or technical training. It builds on the 2014 half-day seminar, and expands to a full day in response to attendee feedback.  It will allow non-technical people of all types to have a good, basic grasp of the technologies, concepts and terms involved in audiovisual recording and reproduction in general, digitization of audiovisual materials, and  file-based workflows, metadata and long-term data archiving.  Workshop attendees will walk away with a good, operating grasp of the technologies involved, de-mystifying the terms and concepts audiovisual archivists face every day at institutions large and small so they know what materials they are looking at, how to handle their preservation, and how to plan for their digital conversion.  They will have a functional knowledge of the terms and concepts required to write grants and contracts for digital conversion and storage of audiovisual materials.

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12:30pm – 5:30pm  |  Fee: $150
Packing and Shipping Nitrate Film Certification
Rachel Del Gaudio, Library of Congress
Robert Smith, CARGOpak

Fulfill your nitrate film packing and shipping training requirement while at this years AMIA conference! Nitrate film is classified as a hazardous material and the regulations of packing and shipping it are very strict. This half day workshop will provide attendees with all the relevant regulatory information to be able to pack and ship nitrate film. Here is a chance to train new employees or to renew your existing DG/hazmat training without incurring the cost of a personal training session or webinar. The class is exclusively about Nitrocellulose film shipping, only UN1324 in a half day workshop.

8:30am – 12:30pm  |  Fee: $75
Airtable for A/V Archivists
Stephanie Sapienza, University of Maryland
Ed Summers, University of Maryland

Airtable is an online relational database application that operates somewhere between Excel/Google Spreadsheets, FileMaker, and OpenRefine. With a high ease of usability and very low barrier of entry, Airtable is ideal for archivists without resources or skill sets to implement more technologically complex solutions for metadata management. It’s an ideal solution for low-budget cultural heritage organizations and regional archives operating with a disbursed labor force.    This workshop will start by discussing different metadata starting point scenarios users may be working from. Then we will utilize a pre-existing data set of item-level records, and work as a group to:    – Create controlled vocabularies/authority lists;  – De-duplicate and normalize records;  – Concatenate repeating fields into one column with multiple values;  – Create custom views of subsets of your metadata;    After the group exercises, we will provide an overview of some more advanced uses of Airtable, including using Airtable Blocks, and the Airtable API.

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8:30am – 5:30pm  |  Fee: $125
Cataloging the Moving Image: Data Modeling, FRBR, BIBFRAME, and PBCore
Randal Luckow, HBO
Andrea Leigh, Library of Congress
Meghan Fitzgerald, NASA
Rebecca Fraimow, WGBH Boston

This highly-interactive workshop will provide participants with real-world strategies to evaluate and implement data models, descriptive  standards, controlled vocabularies, and shared data authorities, through practical hands-on exercises. Dynamic presentations will  illustrate the role and purpose of putting in place a strong data model for bibliographic description, using BIBFRAME and FRBR  examples, and the value of implementing standards such as LCSH, LCGFT, and AAT as data authorities. Participants will put these  cataloging and metadata concepts directly into practice utilizing tools emerging from the NEH-funded PBCore Development and Training  Project.  A special hands-on session will apply genre/form headings to moving images, and show how they are used symbiotically with Library of  Congress Subject Headings to describe both what a work is and what it is about. Participants will complete simple and complex  inventory projects using PBCore Inventory Templates; generate detailed PBCore catalog records using the PBCore Cataloging Tool;  compare/contrast inventory records, catalog records, and XML records; and validate PBCore XML records using the PBCore XML  Validator. Participants will also practice cross walking between different standards.  Presenters include well-respected experts in the field who take care to design sessions that are highly engaging and reflect the most  current developments in audiovisual archiving. This workshop is sponsored by the Cataloging and Metadata Committee in collaboration  with the PBCore advisory subcommittee. This workshop is intended for those with a moderate level of understanding of metadata  standards and implementation strategies.

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9:00am – 5:00pm  |  Fee: $125
Doing Oral History
Teague Schneiter, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences
Anne Kelly, USC Shoah Foundation
Jenni Matz, Television Academy
Steven Sielaff, Baylor University Institute for Oral History

“Doing Oral History” will provide training in each of the core areas of this important documentation method. Attendees will learn how to record, archive and provide access to a single interview, and even how to start their own oral history program. Workshop leaders will teach the following one hour sessions: 1) What is Oral History?/Project Design, 2) Legal and Ethical Framework, 3) Recording Technology (Equipment, lighting, set up), 4) Interviewing Techniques, 5) Lunch break, 6) Records Management & Cataloging, 7) Transcription & Other Derivative Works, 8) Access and Outcomes, 9) Afternoon Section Overflow & Q&A. The workshop will be interactive and include sample materials, assignments, workshopping, a practice interview (with feedback from professionals), and training how to index oral histories using OHMS. This session is also targeted training for professionals looking to learn more about how to ethically work with oral history materials.

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9:00am – 5:00pm |  No fee
AMIA/DLF Hack Day

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12:30pm – 5:30pm |  Fee $60
The Reel Thing Technical Symposium

The Reel Thing addresses current thinking and most advanced practical examples of progress in the field of preservation, restoration and media conservation