Ethan ⁽³²⁾

One of the particular challenges of video preservation is how to handle and preserve the content on digital tape formats from the latter days of magnetic A/V media: Digital Betacam, DVCam, DVCPro, etc. Caught in the nebulous time of transition between analog and digital signals…

Take two! In December, I hastily wrote an update to an old post about BagIt, the Library of Congress' open-source specification for hierarchical packaging of files to support safe data storage and transfer. The primary motivation for the update was some issues that the Video…

A little while back, I changed my display name on Twitter. Besides my actual name (all your anonymity is belong to us), I added on a second handle: @The_BFOOL@digipres.club. What is digipres.club? And why are myself and some other, potentially familiar-to-you users promoting it on…

One of my more popular posts to this blog has been my 2016 round-up of BagIt, the Library of Congress' seminal file packaging specification/software library. My overall explanation for what BagIt is, why it's so important, the still-scattered state of documentation, and the need for…

Normally my focus as MIAP Technician is on classroom support for courses in the MIAP M.A. curriculum - but, as a staff member of the wider NYU Cinema Studies department, there are occasionally cases where I can assist non-MIAP Cinema Studies courses with a need…