Open Source Software at the Association of Moving Image Archivists 2014 Conference
13 Oct 2014Last week, I attended the Association of Moving Image Archivists annual conference, held this year in Savannah, GA. And y’all, I continue to be impressed with all of the open source projects and contributions happening in the field!! I am so pleased to see it grow in significance every year (along with my knowledge and capabilities of wrangling these projects).
Here is a round-up of the technologies discussed during the conference and links to more information.
Git
- Git as a technology
- Github as a popular platform
- Github student pack – A bundle of great software offered by Github to students for free
- Ungit – A version control visualizer
Technologies
- BitTorrent – Distributed filesharing
- ffmpeg – Audio/video manipulation framework
- ImageMagick – Image manipulation framework
- Open Annotation – Open source annotation
- Web Sockets – Or how Ronallo got those interactive slides
- WebVTT – Open subtitles for the web
Projects
- American Archives Project
- Archivematica
- AtoM
- AVAA
- Avalon
- ExifTool
- Fixity
- ffmprovisor
- Internet Archive
- MediaInfo
- Project Hydra
- QCTools
- WGBH Open Vault
Projects with open source sentiment
- Arduino tape cleaner
- California Audiovisual Preservation Project
- Digital Moving Image Archives Guide
- XFR Collective