Every year APEX takes a group of MIAP students combined with alumni, faculty, and friends/colleagues in the profession to support preservation efforts in global archives interested in solutions to challenging infrastructures. APEX seeks to create meaningful international networks of audiovisual archivists, collection managers, educators, and students through shared work on endangered media and film collections. In the spirit of exchange, our teams work side-by-side to carry out projects identified by hosting institutions. APEX is not a service, “help” or “saving archives” program. We define the program as a collaborative and transformative memory project based on sharing and learning. We work enthusiastically in activating and honoring local knowledge and encouraging horizontal collaboration.
Digital Preservation Outreach & Education (DPOE-N)
Digital Preservation Outreach & Education (DPOE-N) was created to enhance understanding of digital preservation by providing training opportunities in the long-term management and dissemination of cultural heritage materials in digital formats.
Orphan Film Symposium
The Orphan Film Symposium is a biennial gathering of archivists, scholars, preservationists, curators, technical experts, collectors, librarians, distributors, and media artists devoted to saving, studying, and screening neglected moving images. Read about the 25th Anniversary of the Orphan Film Sympsium in the October 2024 issue of the FIAF Journal of Film Preservation.
Regional Media Legacies
The Regional Media Legacies (RML) project received support for the next three years from the Robert D. L. Gardiner Foundation to train MIAP archivists on the management and care of film, video, audio, and digital media held across Long Island and New York City (Queens and Brooklyn, specifically).
Additional Collaborative Research Projects
Since its inception, MIAP has undertaken several collaborative research projects with generous funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, the Andew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and New York University's Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response.