Dear AAPB Participating Organizations: Please be informed that the AAPB team is conducting some maintenance on the AMS server, so access to records will not be available during this time. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the AAPB Project Manager at casey_davis [at] wgbh [dot] org. We will provide an update on … Continue reading AMS is undergoing maintenance
Author: American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Opening Data Is Not Like Opening a Door
In the fall of 2012 AVPreserve received a data dump of the 2.4 million records that had been generated as part of the American Archive Content Inventory Project (AACIP) managed by WGBH Media Library & Archives. There's a reason it's referred to as a dump -- parsing, mapping, and making that data useable or accessible … Continue reading Opening Data Is Not Like Opening a Door
PBCore events at AMIA 2014
Are you headed to Savannah for AMIA this year? Want to get the scoop on current PBCore developments? If so, go ahead and block off your schedule for Friday, October 10 from 11am - 1pm -- it's going to be a PBHardcore couple of hours! First, members of the AMIA PBCore Advisory Subcommittee will lead … Continue reading PBCore events at AMIA 2014
Voices of Minnesota with Sara Evans and Rosalie Wahl
This summer I've had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with a lot of the content that's been digitized for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. It's full of gems, and I'm so excited about the possibilities that it offers for discovery, research and education! When I opted to share a clip from Minnesota Public Radio's “Voices … Continue reading Voices of Minnesota with Sara Evans and Rosalie Wahl
Your comments on PBCore wanted
Are you a PBCore user? Do you have opinions on how it could be improved? The PBCore Schema Team invites all parties interested in contributing to the ongoing development and improvement of PBCore to submit their issues with the current version of the standard to the PBCore GitHub issue tracker. Submitted issues may be related … Continue reading Your comments on PBCore wanted
AAPB Participating Organizations: Please take our Digital Preservation Survey
We want to know how public media organizations are tackling the emerging challenges of preserving digital audio and video files. If you work at a public media organization that has participated in the American Archive initiative, please take our Digital Preservation Survey- your input will help the American Archive of Public Broadcasting develop strategies to … Continue reading AAPB Participating Organizations: Please take our Digital Preservation Survey
Digitization Successes of the American Archive
By Emily Halevy, Director of Media Management Sales at Crawford Media Services Hi everyone! My name is Emily Halevy. I’m the Director of Media Management Sales at Crawford Media Services. Hopefully by now, stations have been able to work with Chip and David- our fabulous project managers- and are well on their way to receiving … Continue reading Digitization Successes of the American Archive
1st American Archive Meet-up: July 9 at 10am ET
A couple of weeks ago we shared a blog post introducing an opportunity for stations to discuss and continue to learn about how to preserve your station's history. American Archive Meet-ups will take place as informal video conference calls among American Archive participating stations and organizations to discuss issues related to archiving and preserving your materials. (I hope you are … Continue reading 1st American Archive Meet-up: July 9 at 10am ET
If You’re a PBCore User and You Know It Write to Us…
If you're a PBCore user and you know it, then our website and Wikipedia page will show it! We're updating our website and Wikipedia page to demonstrate the variety of wonderful organizations that use PBCore to manage and share their data. Can we include your station's name on our list? Please respond to casey_davis@wgbh.org to … Continue reading If You’re a PBCore User and You Know It Write to Us…
Grant Opportunity: Grammy Foundation Archiving and Preservation Projects
The Grammy Foundation has just announced that they are accepting grant proposals for music and recorded sound archiving and preservation projects. The program has two funding categories: Preservation Implementation ($20,000 maximum award) and Preservation Assistance ($5,000 maximum award), and more information about these categories can be found here. If your station is interested in applying for … Continue reading Grant Opportunity: Grammy Foundation Archiving and Preservation Projects
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