Audio Visual Special Interest Group

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This online members-only event will be held on the 28th of January at 17:00-18:00 UTC (12:00-13:00 Washington DC, 09:00-10:00 Los Angels) and is intended to suit Members based in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. (click for local time).

You don’t need to join the AVSIG in order to attend one of our meetings; you just need to come from a DPC Member organization and pre-register for the even (see below) so that we have an idea of numbers.

The Audiovisual Special Interest Group (AVSIG) brings together any interested staff from DPC Member organizations to discuss issues and challenges relating to the preservation of digital content that is either audio, video, or both. The AVSIG provides an opportunity to share experiences, discuss good practice, and identify and address common problems. It aims to complement, not duplicate, the activities of any pre-existing groups, meetings, or activities that address the long-term preservation of AV content. Priority is given to discussions of real-world experiences and examples of proven good practice.

Kate Murray, Abbey Potter and Isabel Brador will discuss the new C2PA for G+LAM Community of Practice, a collaborative group led by the Library of Congress which is exploring content authenticity and provenance issues in the age of AI. One area of focus is C2PA, the result of a cooperative effort led by industry partners to create an open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media, including data created or impacted by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The open C2PA standard, now fast tracked as an ISO standard, defines a set of metadata containing details about the provenance of information displayed on a digital device including, for example, images, video, sound or text data both as standalone files and embedded within files.  The C2PA metadata as well as the main content is secured with hash codes/fixity values and certified digital signatures. While not infallible, C2PA is one method to explore the responsible use of AI because the content credential information can demonstrate whether an item was made by a camera or generated by AI, when and where it was created, and any changes it has gone through.

The C2PA for G+LAM Community of Practice is actively engaging with standards authors and implementors by defining the needs of the digital preservation community through user stories, developing templates and more. This presentation will be an overview of current efforts with ample time for discussion and feedback. 

Where possible, any presentations given at AVSIG meetings will be recorded and subsequently made available to Members via this event page.

If you have any questions or suggested topics for future meetings, please email: michael.popham@dpconline.org. (see below for the proposed date and time zone of AVSIG’s next meeting).

Agenda 

• Welcome

• Conflicts of Interest

• Presentation from Kate Murray, Abbey Potter, and Isabel Brador

• General discussion – questions or comments to the Group, or reports from recent conferences and events.

• Topics for future meetings / offers to present
  If you would like to present at this event e.g. about the work of your organization or to discuss an AV preservation challenge that you face, then do please get in touch! email: michael.popham@dpconline.org.

• AOB

• Date and topic of next meeting (25^th March 2026, details tbc) – provisionally timed to suit Members in Europe and Africa.

Registration (DPC members, please log in to register)

Places are strictly limited and should be booked in advance. Registration is open to DPC members only.

Got any questions? Please contact Michael Popham: michael.popham@dpconline.org

DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy 

The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent. We encourage diversity in all its forms and are committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation, whilst remaining technology and vendor neutral. We ask all those who are part of this community and/or attending an event to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.