PBCore Schema review needs your comments
The PBCore Schema Team is hot on the heels of the next version/update of the PBCore 2.x schema. They’re taking comments and feature requests until September 30, 2014 for the next schema release planned for March 2015. All parties interested in contributing to the ongoing development and improvement of PBCore should please submit their issues […]
PBCore and Dance Heritage Coalition’s “Media Network”
Dance Heritage Coalition (DHC) is bravely and gracefully pioneering the field of dance preservation. As a consortium of institutions holding significant collections documenting the history of dance, they are the only national non-profit organization taking on the special challenges of this field. Those challenges include preserving a multi-format legacy and providing access to its riches while […]
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 […]
Continue to provide PBCore feedback through GitHub issues!
As the PBCore committee analyzes data coming from our survey (thank you, community!) we wanted to take a moment to let you know how we’ll be tracking community feedback going forward – we welcome and encourage your continued input! In a short few steps, you can sign up for a Github.com account and submit “issues” […]
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 […]
PBCore is Back in Action!
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 […]
PBCore at “Describing Moving Images” Workshop
Yesterday I presented PBCore at a workshop organized by Northeast Historic Film on “Describing Moving Images.” PBCore was just one part of a day filled with FRBR, DACS and authority control discussions. Students were especially interested to learn about cataloging collections in PBCore and how to relate one PBCore record to another. My slides are […]
PBCore on GitHub is now public
In the interests of community, transparency and sustainability, the PBCore team has decided to make the PBCore 2.0 respository on GitHub a public repository. It is a bit unusual to approach a metadata standard like it were an open source application, but we found GitHub to be helpful in our process for developing PBCore 2.0 […]
PBCore presentation at IMA 2011
I presented PBCore 2.0 as part of a panel on collaboration at the IMA 22011 conference in Austin, Texas. The panel was mostly focused on case studies of collaboration — including examples between radio & print, amongst television & the arts community, and between media makers. PBCore is more of an enabling technology than an […]
