Webinar Recap: A Brief History of PBCore
This is the first post in a series about the PBCore webinar that the Education Team presented in October 2014. A recording of the webinar can be found here, and we’ll be recapping the event over the next few weeks. The webinar began with a brief history of PBCore, which is outlined here. PBCore began […]
PBCore: A How-to and Why-to Webinar | Recording from 10/23/2014
On October 23, 2014, the AMIA PBCore Advisory Subcommittee’s Education Team offered a webinar titled “PBCore: A How-to and Why-to Webinar.” Geared toward archivists, librarians, and anyone who has audiovisual collections at their institutions, the presenters offered contextual background; explained the benefits and reasons why PBCore is perfectly suited for managing audiovisual collections; offered step-by-step […]
PBCore Handout & New PBCore XML Examples
The PBCore Advisory Subcommittee’s Communications Team has created a handout for people considering using PBCore at their institutions. Feel free to download the pdf and share it with your colleagues as you begin to consider options for managing metadata about audiovisual materials in your collections. Additionally, Education Team member Morgan Oscar Morel has created several […]
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 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 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 […]
How to relate complex parts and instantiations
PBCore may be used to express multiple instantiations per work (e.g., multiple tapes containing one program). It may be done in different ways, depending on what – if any – descriptive metadata should accompany each tape. If metadata to describe the content of each tape (i.e., the program segment material) is not needed, then the […]
Introducing PBCore 2.0
PBCore is a metadata standard designed to describe media, both digital and analog. More importantly, it was designed for the Internet and for the kinds of software applications we now use to manage, access, and share media.
How to express collections in PBCore
The introduction in PBCore 2.0 of the root element ‘pbcoreCollection’ directly addresses the need to “wrap” or collect assets for use in an XML-based publishing system like Really Simple Syndication (RSS). Use ‘pbcoreCollection’ to wrap any number of ‘pbcoreDescriptionDocument’ asset records for sharing or to express the structure of a collection of records.
