PBCore at Smithsonian Channel
Recently I had the pleasure of talking with the Director of the Library and Archives at Smithsonian Channel, Karma Foley. This summer Smithsonian Channel is migrating to a more robust database, and Karma shared how PBCore is informing this expansion and helping the channel preserve their private collection in a file-based, CollectiveAccess environment. Smithsonian Channel […]
PBCore data exchange with the Pop Up Archive
You may have heard about the Pop Up Archive, which if you haven’t, you should. From my vantage point, they are solving a key problem of radio producers (and anyone creating digital audio) by providing: – A simple way to upload and preserve the highest-resolution digital audio files with the Internet Archive as the back […]
WNET.org’s Digital Asset Management System
WNET.org is New York City’s premier public television station, serving the largest market in the country. The station is also one of the major producers of national programming on PBS, originating such signature series as NATURE; Live from Lincoln Center; American Masters; Religion & Ethics Newsweekly; Cyberchase; and Need to Know.
Democracy Now! Audio and Video Production
Why we use PBCore PBCore was first used in the Democracy Now! archive by our former archivist, David Rice, but we continue to use it because it fits our needs. We have limited resources and rely on interns to catalog our production material, so we need a metadata standard with which one can familiarize oneself […]
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.
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.
