Anne Schweikert, City University Television (CUNY TV), City University of New York, Spring 2018
At CUNY TV, an educational-access television station affiliated with the City University of New York, I worked under the guidance of Dave Rice and Catriona Schlosser to support the digitization and digital preservation workflows in use at the Library. CUNY TV automates preservation actions with scripts written in Bash and made available to the public on GitHub. Using open-source tools means that CUNY TV staff can break down and revise local workflows without having to rely on opaque services or products. Of course, it also means that CUNY TV staff have to get comfortable with coding, archival best practices, and the technical details of digital video—which is what I did in my internship. In the course of my internship, I revised, added features to, and helped maintain vrecord, a script that allows users to digitize analog videotapes; and mediamicroservices, a suite of microservices that processes files for archival ingest and preservation. I learned an enormous amount about coding, quality control, documentation and digital video, and broke absolutely everything along the way. If you’d like to use or contribute to these scripts yourself, please come visit https://github.com/amiaopensource/vrecord and https://github.com/mediamicroservices/mm!
Anne Schweikert interned at City University Television (CUNY TV) in Spring 2018.
