Abstract / topic summary
In the Walter J. Brown Media Archives at the University of Georgia (UGA), we've been using open-source tools in our AV digitization and preservation workflows for about a decade. These tools have helped us capture better digital signals and save money and time on processing and storage costs. However, in the past year, we have faced increasing challenges in getting these tools to work within the managed enterprise IT environment that we belong to as part of UGA. This presentation will go through how security updates within UGA IT, alongside the strict security architecture of recent Mac OSs, have presented us with new operational friction, and some of the workarounds we've been using to keep our open-source capture workflow up and running.
Speakers
Dave Rice
Loubna Régragui is a French film curator, senior expert in film preservation, and filmmaker with extensive experience working in international and multicultural professional environments across the United States, Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
An ARCHIMEDIA alumna, she graduated from The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman Museum, where she had the opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese’s private film collection. She has since collaborated with leading film archives in Europe and the United States, served as a senior film preservation expert for the European Union, and worked with nonprofit foundations and specialized film laboratories on major film preservation programs and restoration projects worldwide.
In addition, Loubna is a doctoral researcher at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, where her PhD dissertation investigates Technicolor’s dye-imbibition process in the United States through the unique Technicolor collections conserved at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY.
Alessandra Luciano
Alessandra Luciano earned her master’s degree in film studies from Columbia University in the City of New York and subsequently pursued a master’s in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image at the University of Amsterdam. In 2013, she began her career as the Head of the Film and Television Archives at the Centre National de l’Audiovisuel (CNA) in Luxembourg. In 2019, Alessandra advanced to the role of Digital Curator, where she focused on implementing long-term preservation and access strategies to ensure a sustainable legacy for the country’s audiovisual heritage. Since 2022, she has been working at the Ministry of Culture, where she coordinates the national digital cultural strategy and co-leads the internal working group on artificial intelligence. Additionally, she is a member of an inter-ministerial committee on digital policies and contributes to the Luxembourg Government’s comprehensive AI strategy.
Alessandra is interested in emerging technologies and how they affect the entire lifecycle management of cultural heritage collections. Since leaving academia, she has been able to combine theory with practice across a spectrum of diverse interests and fields. Alessandra worked as a copy editor for the international peer-reviewed academic journal Cinéma&Cie, used to be a board member of the EUscreen Foundation, and is on the organizing committee of the international conference No Time To Wait.
