PBCore is back in action! As part of the American Archive initiative, WGBH in collaboration with the Library of Congress has been charged with further developing PBCore (Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary). The goals of the project are to:
- Strategize direction for the PBCore schema
- Improve the PBCore website
- Solicit submissions from the public
- Vote on submissions to improve PBCore
- Develop resources and provide learning opportunities for organizations interested in using PBCore
- Encourage and support the use of the standard
As the work progresses in the next few months, you’ll be seeing a lot of changes to the PBCore website and a lot of activity on the PBCore blog. So stay tuned for a new and improved website, schema, and a variety of new resources that will help your organization adopt and use PBCore!
The project is being coordinated the American Archive of Public Broadcasting project team. To form the PBCore Advisory Subcommittee, WGBH’s Project Manager Casey Davis reached out to public media stakeholders from universities, archives, and industry to assemble a group of 41 people, who will work in four groups:
Website (http://pbcore.org/)
- Review the PBCore website and other standards websites
- Identify ways in which the website can be improved and become more user-friendly
- Review existing record examples and create new examples for the website
Schema Development
- Gather input from the PBCore Advisory Subcommittee for ideas on schema improvement
- Consider suggestions provided by the community
- Develop and implement revisions to the schema
- Explore opportunities for EBUCore harmonization and RDF implementation
Communications
- Create the PBCore newsletter
- Provide updates to organizations and listservs
- Gather schema development submissions from the public
- Implement a strategy for communication and outreach to adopters and potential adopters
- Manage the PBCore blog (http://pbcoreresources.org/)
Education
- Create, communicate, and disseminate effective learning opportunities for PBCore adopters and potential adopters
- Develop resources that will be shared on the blog and website, ie FAQs
- Create instructional videos and conduct webinars
- Strategize other opportunities for teaching the standard
We’re proud to have such a professionally diverse group of contributors to the project. Members include:
Steering Team
Jack Brighton, Illinois Public Media
Karen Cariani, WGBH
Casey E. Davis, WGBH
Dave MacCarn, WGBH
Kara Van Malssen, AVPreserve
Lauren Sorensen, Library of Congress
Anne Wootton, PopUp Archive
Education
Chair: Anne Wootton, PopUp Archive
Caitlin Birch, Frontline | WGBH
Jessica Bitely, Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC)
Kevin Carter, WGBH
Nick Connizzo, George Washington University
Jeremy Meserve, Belmont Media Center
Bill Nehring, Simmons College | MLIS Candidate
Nancy Watrous, Chicago Film Archive
Schema Development
Chair: Kara Van Malssen, AVPreserve
Margaret Bresnahan, Minnesota Public Radio
Andrea Leigh, Library of Congress
Glenn Clatworthy, PBS
Tom Davenport, Folkstreams
Glynn Edwards, Stanford University
Jean-pierre Evain, EBUCore
Leigh Grinstead, LYRASIS
Jimi Jones, Hampshire College
Steve Knoblock, Folksreams
Devon Landes, HBO
Dave MacCarn, WGBH
Mary Miller, Peabody Awards
John Passmore, WNYC-FM
Allison Smith, Wisconsin Public Radio
Adam Wead, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Leah Weisse, WGBH
Website
Chair: Lauren Sorensen, Library of Congress
Jolene Beiser, Pacifica Radio Archives
Ashley Blewer, University of South Carolina
Nestor Cordova, University of Texas
Jeff Eastman, IMF
Ryan Edge, University of Illinois
Andrew Myers, WGBH
Alexander Papson, University of Notre Dame
Dave Rice, City University of New York
Deanna Ulvestad, Greene County Public Library
Anne Wilkens, Wisconsin Public Television
Communications
Chair: Jack Brighton, Illinois Public Media
Casey Davis, WGBH
Karma Foley, Smithsonian Channel
Bailey Smith, PopUp Archive
Jenny Swadosh, New School
There’s a lot of work to do, and we need your help to make this happen. We want to see PBCore in the wild. How do you use PBCore? What challenges do you have? Let us know in the comment section below or by email, and let’s make PBCore better together.
This post was written by Bailey Smith, Co-founder of PopUp Archive and PBCore Communications Team Secretary.
