Dwight Swanson, Center for Home Movies Skip Elsheimer, A/V Geeks, Center for Home Movies Jasmyn Castro, National Museum of African American History and Culture Pamela Vadakin, California Audiovisual Preservation Project The Home Movie Registry is an online portal that aggregates the catalog records and digitized files of amateur film and video in one central location.  The Registry is a curated search engine for amateur films.  It doesn’t...

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THE 2014 OPEN SOURCE DIGITAL PRESERVATION AND ACCESS STREAM focused on the use of open source software that is in current significant use within digital preservation and access systems.  Curated by Chris Lacinak of AVPreserve in collaboration with AMIA’s Open Source Committee the stream covered larger issues such as when it does or does not make sense to take the open source approach, and how to navigate the complexities of copyright and...

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