pbcore
WGBH Open Vault
The WGBH Media Library and Archives needed a format for exchange that would be sufficient to describe our multimedia assets yet not overly complex.
Secure Media Network: Dance Heritage Coalition & BAVC
The Secure Media Network is a collaborative project of the Dance Heritage Coalition and Bay Area Video Coalition, which starts with a union catalog of submitting dance archives’ records and goes from there integrating a digital repository (in testbed phase presently) and web interface for access.
New York Public Radio Archives (WNYC)
The New York Public Radio Archives encompasses collections from WNYC, WQXR, and the broadcasts from NYPR’s performance venue, The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. Our catalogue currently lists more than 44,000 assets with nearly 80,000 instantiations, covering the wide range of analog and digital audio formats, from lacquer discs to wav files.
WITNESS’s video catalog
WITNESS is a non-profit organization that collaborates with human rights groups around the world to co-produce and distribute videos that advance human rights causes. We maintain a Media Archive to collect, preserve and provide access to the audiovisual recordings made by WITNESS and our partners to support advocacy and the prosecution of justice, and for truth-telling and the historical record.
How to express relationships between assets
PBCore may be used in more than one way to express relations between assets such as programs within a series, chapters within an episode, stories within a program and limitless other combinations. The simplest approach is to put higher, container-level data next to lower, derivative-level data within the main asset (at the level of element […]
Minnesota Public Radio
We use some PBCore elements, drawing from those in existence at the time we designed our database, some eight years ago. Once the system was launched that essentially froze our element structure. We haven’t had technical support to make major changes.
PBCore version 1.3
Here’s the version 1.3 XSD and documentation, which is an interim release to focus primarily on supporting upcoming American Archive projects.
Change Requests so far… Submit yours!
We are still gathering change requests for PBCore 2.0, to be published in November, 2010. Any requests submitted by July 25, 2010 will be considered for PBCore 2.0. Requests submitted after July 25th will be recorded for the next version of PBCore. Change requests collected thus far are attached to this post as an Excel file. We will be adding more requests as we receive them. Please submit yours, comment on other requests, and add your voice to the PBCore 2.0 process!
Progress Report… PBCore 1.3 for August, 2.0 in the Fall
As previously posted, CPB has hired WGBH, Digital Dawn and AVPS to further the development of PBCore. As an interim step towards PBCore 2.0, and to accomodate PBCore’s use in CPB’s American Archive Project, we are working on version 1.3, due out at the end of July.
Deadline Extended: Submit your Change Requests for PBCore 2.0 by July 25th!
CPB has funded the development of PBCore version 2.0 to be released in the fall, 2010.
We are formally collecting user feedback and requests for changes to PBCore through July 25th.
