Learn about the new release of Fixity software, check out helpful webinars, link up to recent presentations from the AVP team, and more!

Fixity Pro Release in Summer of 2020

AVP is excited to announce that we are releasing Fixity Pro in the summer of 2020 with lots of new updates and features. Since first launching Fixity seven years ago as an open-source tool, we have had over 10,000 downloads and seen it used by just about every type of organization regardless of size or resources. But we've never been able to quite support it like we want, so we are using a low-cost paid subscription model for the latest release. This allows us to support ongoing updates, feature development, and bug fixes in a sustainable way. Don't worry- it's still really cheap. Read more about this little tool that does a big lift for verifying digital preservation and integrity. 

From the Field

RIPDASA Webinars

AVP is pleased to be a part of the RIPDASA Webinar series sponsored by CYTED for the second year in a row. This Spanish-language series of free online tutorials focuses on digital preservation of audiovisual files. Over 500 people joined for the first session in April with María Teresa Ortíz from the Fonoteca Nacional de Mexico (pictured right). Check out Session 1 and Session 2 posted in Aviary with transcripts. Register here for the remaining sessions or learn more about RIPDASA’s efforts, including mapping archives, on our blog.

Still AMPPD Up

This spring AVP’s Shawn Averkamp did two presentations with Indiana University about the AMPPD project on automated metadata generation for audiovisual materials. 

• Code4Lib: AI is Such a Tool: Keeping Your Machine Learning Outputs in Check
• CNI: AMP Project Update: Leveraging Machine Learning and Human Expertise for AV Collections Access

DIY Digi Pres

AVP's Amy Rudersdorf joined Preservica for a webinar on how organizations can plan for and execute their own internal self-assessments using readily available tools and techniques. We got it here in Aviary with a searchable transcript!

AVP Blog & Resources

Tips to Manage Your DAM Expectations

For many organizations working in a distributed manner has revealed the need to access digital assets in a single click from anywhere. This might mean rethinking current digital asset management (DAM) systems. So we thought we would share this short video with Kara Van Malssen and Kerri Willette talking through tips on how to manage expectations during a DAMS launch, hosted with full transcripts and captions (English and Spanish) in AVP's Aviary platform. 

The tips are from Kara's recent post, Manage Your DAM Expectations. or, How Getting a DAMS is Like Buying and Owning a Home. Want to dig deeper? Check out Kara's white paper Scenario Planning for a Successful DAM Journey It details how to think through a scenario-driven approach for selecting, implementing, and deploying digital asset management systems.

New Blog Posts

Black Lives Matter: What We Believe And What We Will Do

Injustice and inequity cannot stand and be allowed to persist. Black lives matter. We must speak, act, and follow through as a country, communities, organizations, citizens, and individuals. 

Filter, Focus, Forward Series

In this new blog series, we are sharing some helpful tips on how to be more productive, more effective, and happier in the world of physical distancing based on the AVP team's experience remotely working over the last three years. 

Connecting and Engaging with Our Friends and Colleagues 

AVP’s Founder and President Chris Lacinak's message about how AVP is adjusting and moving forward during the COVID-19 crisis.

Take Flight

AVP is happy to offer a free 90-day Aviary starter plan that includes free file storage! Discover how, especially right now, Aviary is useful to make audio and video resources available remotely whether those are themed collections or your own internal meetings. Read more about how it could work for you here. 

Aviary Webinars

Want an easy way to show others at your organization why you like Aviary? Join us for our monthly Aviary webinar every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 1 PM EST.  Ask questions and see new features, register here.

• 07/08/20
• 08/15/20

Extend Your Virtual Conference Engagement  

Aviary can help you quickly share your virtual conference recordings, while providing a user-centric experience that allows for people to search through the content of sessions the same way as a PDF, website, or any other text-based information. Check out how the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) transitioned to online content for their 54th Annual Conference in May 2020. 

New Aviary Features

With your feedback, Aviary keeps getting better! We are very excited to introduce two much asked for features- a transcript editor and playlists. We've also updated subdomain landing pages for a better user experience. See all the details in our Aviary development log here. 

Transcript Editor- Aviary organizations can now edit any IBM Watson generated transcripts directly in the Aviary platform- update speaker information and quickly fix up any bad auto-transcriptions all in one place! 

Playlists- Organizations can create playlists to give their users curated access to audio and video content. Playlists allow organizations to sequence resources (and media files) from across their collections into a single location.