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Community Media Video Distribution Network, TelVue Corporation
Sharing content between broadcasters used to mean shipping tapes back and forth, which inhibited access and discovery, raised costs, and increased the likelihood of damage. Digital technologies have made file sharing more practical as an access point, but most file sharing on the Internet has been geared towards consumer applications or one-size-fits-all approaches.
WHYY’s Fresh Air Archives, WHYY
WHYY uses PBCore in its audio archiving solution for radio. Working with consultant David Rice and hardware vendor TelVue, WHYY was able to develop a searchable digital library for Fresh Air — an NPR program that has been produced on a daily basis since 1987.
Northeast Historic Film’s Hidden Collections Catalog
Northeast Historic Film was awarded a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Collections program in 2010 to create descriptive records for 50 film collections (8mm, 16mm, 35mm) identified as significant moving image archival documents relating to work and labor in the first half of the 20th century.
Wisconsin Public Television’s Media Library Database
In our production facility we use the PBCore metadata standard in our media library database. The database includes completed programs, masters of story segments, and b-roll that we’ve decided to keep because it is historically relevant, generic and therefore reusable in other stories, and will support future revisits to a particular story.
How to express time segments within a video
Use time-oriented attributes (startTime, endTime) within elements such as contributor, coverage, creator, instantiationPart, instantiationRights, pbcoreDescription, pbcoreGenre, pbcoreInstantiation, pbcoreInstantiationDocument, pbcorePart, pbcoreRightsSummary, pbcoreSubject, pbcoreTitle and publisher. For example: <pbcoreDescriptionDocument> <!– section removed for clarity –> <pbcoreDescription descriptionType="Summary" segmentType="Scene" startTime="01:02:03;04" endTime="05:06:07;08">Series of cut-transition between static views of natural beauty.</pbcoreDescription> <!– section removed for clarity –> </pbcoreDescriptionDocument>
NDIIPP’s Model Digital Video Preservation Repository
The prototype Preservation Repository (PR) at New York University was built as a major component of the Library of Congress-funded project Preserving Digital Public Television.
Illinois Public Media
In 2009 Illinois Public Media was one of 22 stations participating in the American Archive Pilot Project (AAPP). The AAPP provided funding to discover, digitize, and catalog public radio and TV content on the Civil Rights Movement produced from 1954 to 1975, and World War Two-related content produced in relation to the Ken Burns documentary The War.
Broadway Video Digital Media
Broadway Video Digital Media (BVDM) used PBCore as part of their work for the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Green Light for Midtown campaign. The primary goal of the project was to produce an edited video that could be used as a promotional tool for the campaign.
WGBH Digital Asset Management
The Media Library and Archives and Applied Technology departments helped inform the original metadata model that would become PBCore. For this reason, PBCore aligns well with our existing systems and we have worked to keep them PBCore compliant.
