Juliana Principe Salazar, Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation

In the Ailey Archive at the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, my core responsabilities were focused in working with the digital assets produced and received by the AADF. I gain experience on command line tools, processing and packaging digital assets. I worked with a variety of digital formats such as the 10-but uncompressed, .mov, .mp4, among others in tasks such as transcoding, embedding metadata and ingesting those files to the NetX DAMS according to the AADF Digital Asset Management Plan. To achieve this I used ExifTool, FFmpeg, and the NetX interface. I also gained cataloging skills through familiarizing myself with the use of controlled vocabulary and learning the data model of the AADF. Finally, apart from embedding metadata and cataloging, I also had the opportunity to synchronize the csv file I prepared for a batch of one of the collections with the NetX DAMS. This experience was thrilling and gave me insights to understand the procedures to manage digital assets in a large scale.