Year in Review of Digital Archivy Projects
Our year in review of Digital Archivy reveal one unsurprising conclusion. In an era of Big Data, digital archiving and preservation provide the most effective and efficient ways to manage, leverage and use historic materials and information. Last year, Digital Archivy worked closely with some impressive organizations. We helped create archival projects that were tailored to serve their specific needs, goals, requirements, timelines, and budget.
As you can see from the list below, the projects all raise awareness, improve control and add value. We help organizations develop digital preservation strategies, digitize and license raw footage, compare and rate different Digital Asset Management (DAM) options, and build trusted digital library prototypes that provide access to hidden historic materials.
“Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage” (HBO)
Recent Digital Archivy Projects
We met and faced new challenges and learned a lot over the past year. It was intimidating and fun! Fortunately, our clients were willing to hear out and test out different options and find solutions that were the most effective and useful. Our new client projects included everything from film production studios, magazine publisher, and a few non-profit organizations, foundations and charities.
- Assisted a children’s rights organization in updating digital preservation and access strategy, implementation road map, timeline and budget
- Digitized and licensed Super 8 film and digitized and transcribed on-site audio recordings for
- Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 (Raw TV/Netflix),
- Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage (HBO Max), and
- BURN IT DOWN! (Dorothy Street Pictures and Rolling Stone)
- Developed a DAM Scorecard to assist a non-profit foundation compare and select a DAM
- Launched Digital Library Archive of 30+ years of a groundbreaking lesbian magazine.
As a result, we learned that projects may differ in time, budget and complexity, but Digital Archivy is effective by working closely with clients. We work best when we help people who have a vision, an awareness and sense of pride in their history and collections. Our clients want to share with others and support their stakeholders. We help them do that and make their information more valuable and less vulnerable. No job is too small or big!
Potential Digital Archivy Projects
So the question is: what’s next? Are there any projects that you are facing that seem impossible and could use some support?
For example, do you have
- a collection of Family Photo Albums or Scrapbooks gathering dust? – These could be digitized and made accessible everywhere online!
- a list of awards and honors that your institution has received? – These could be analyzed to find insights on trends and patterns!
- different types of media content and formats on related subjects? – These could be preserved and made accessible via online platform!
- an Excel spreadsheet with a lot of data but is incomprehensible? – Data analytics and pivot tables can reveal new and useful insights!
“Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99” (RawTV/NetFlix)
Check out our proof-of-concept Digital Archive Library prototype for Talker of the Town. If you’d like to learn more, please contact us directly.