Office Hours are open! T.A.P.E. "professors" (who also happen to be professional A/V archivists) are holding a two-hour workshop/open hours session designed to give you the space and guidance to finally clean up that messy hard drive.

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We will discuss basic concepts indigitalpreservation, walkthrough commoncare tasks for storage devices, answer questions, and showcase some helpful free and open-source software.

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Participants will learn about tools for:

* Identifying duplicate files

* Batch renaming

*Re-formatting files

*Generating a list of all the files in a folder or device

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And even some digital preservation tools for:

*Generating checksums (taking a digital file fingerprint)

*Migration with fixity (sameness) checks

*Normalizing files to standardized formats

*Assessing the longevity of a particular file format

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Monday June 9

7PM – 9PM

Tickets: $25

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T.A.P.E. Patreon Members and Whammy! members can purchase tickets for a discounted price of $25!Consider becoming a member of T.A.P.E.’s Patreonfor just $5 a month to access exclusive first tickets for workshops, discounts on screenings, rentals, and events, and much more!

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Presented by T.A.P.E. - a Los Angeles based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on training, equipment rentals and volunteer opportunities. Teach, archive, preserve, exhibit.

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