AMIA 2024

Dave Rice is an audiovisual archivist and technologist and a graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation. Dave’s work focuses on the application of open source technology for audiovisual preservation as well as facilitating coordination and collaboration between communities that preserve media, develop software, and author standards. He has worked as an archivist or archival consultant at media organizations like CUNY, Democracy Now!, The United Nations, WITNESS, DCTV, and Bay Area Video Coalition. Dave also works on developing standards for file formats used in audiovisual preservation, such as Matroska and FFV1, via participation in the Internet Engineering Task Force’s working group on lossless audiovisual formats (cellar). Dave was the 2016 recipient of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance’s Innovation Award and also the 2016 recipient of the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ Alan Stark Award.