About Me

EMMY Award winning editor, holds a Master of Library Science with a Certificate in Archiving. 

PJ Dougherty – PDA Doctor

Organize your digital files and legacy

I have presented self-help strategies to artists and film-makers, now I can do it for you. My specialty is Macintosh but the core principles apply on any  platform.

My route to personal digital asset management came via advanced video editing systems starting in the 1990s. In recent years I’ve been the Video Archivist of an international charitable organization administering their collection on a 100 TB server.

As someone who has been accumulating digital files since the 1980s, I know firsthand how hard it is to manage, access and preserve them. Let me help you, the first consultation is free.

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Other Credentials

Presentation at Film Academy (New York City)
(2020)
Metadata, Back-Up & Archiving for Video Editors

Presentation at New York Foundation for the Arts
(2018)
Video Preservation & Archiving

Post-Grad paid Internship at Legal Advocacy Non-Profit
(Spring 2018)
Value assessment video collection (digital & analog) for anniversary commemoration.

Internship at Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts
(Fall 2017)
Assessment and pre-processing video collection from the Guggeheim Museum

Presentation at PDA Conference
(2015)
Personal Digital Archiving Conference 2015 at New York University

Memberships

Society of American Archivists

Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA)

Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York

American Library Association