Joshua Ng
Executive Council Member at Southeast Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolJoshua Ng is a digital preservation analyst with 14 years’ experience specialising in audiovisual preservation, heritage data systems, and data-driven archival workflows. Based in Wellington, he leads digital preservation strategy for Archives New Zealand—where he engineered large-scale ingest solutions and helped preserve 100,000+ at-risk audiovisual items—while serving on the Executive Council of SEAPAVAA. He blends hands-on scripting and systems work (e.g., XML ingest pipelines, Rosetta/METS configurations, FFmpeg tool training) with policy and project design to deliver auditable, long-term access to government and cultural collections. A co-founder of a digital media studio and former IT lead at Asian Film Archive, he pairs technical depth with practical production and outreach experience across the region. Joshua is an active educator in open-source AV tools and contributed to international best-practice guidance for born-digital video, reflecting a rare mix of archival scholarship and operational engineering.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Science, Optics & Photonics, Engineering Science, Optics & Photonics at National University of SingaporeMaster of Science (MSc), Information Science/Studies, Master of Science (MSc), Information Science/Studies at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Malay, Chinese, English, Chinese
Github Skills (64)
crosswalk7
index-html7
alpha7
filtering7
csv6
react6
chat6
client-library6
foundation6
rosetta5
mastodon5
keybase5
python5
react-native5
twitter4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
archives-new-zealand/archwayimportgenerator
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Code to create an Archway Import Sheet from DROID CSV + external CSV
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 4 months
csvsheetsheet-importarchwaydroid
archives-new-zealand/rosetta-csv-ingest
Apr 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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