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 … Continue reading PBCore is Back in Action!
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Meet American Archive Intern Alyson Musser
The American Archive team at WGBH is sincerely grateful to our intern Alyson Musser for all of the work she is accomplishing this semester. With the approval of several stations, we have started to add enhanced descriptions for digital files in the American Archive collection. Alyson is the first intern to be taking on this … Continue reading Meet American Archive Intern Alyson Musser
Evacuation Day in Boston
As the host of WGBH Journal, Bill Cavness, put it 36 years ago, "Today is not just St. Patrick’s Day. In Boston, schools, banks and other public offices are closed because it is Evacuation Day. Evacuation Day commemorates the final departure of the British from Boston in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War.” Have a listen … Continue reading Evacuation Day in Boston
Follow the #AmericanArchive on Twitter!
I think our first tweet says it best. Check out our new Twitter page and follow us at @amarchivepub for the latest updates on the American Archive initiative! Post by Casey E. Davis, Project Manager for the AAPB at WGBH
American Archive Ceremony & “The Atlantic” articles
On February 10, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting hosted an event celebrating the American Archive, which took place in the marvelous Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress. The ceremony featured speeches by CPB's President and CEO Patricia Harrison, Librarian of Congress Dr. James Billington, WGBH's President and CEO Jon … Continue reading American Archive Ceremony & “The Atlantic” articles
WBEZ Radio Interview with American Archive Project Director Karen Cariani
WBEZ's The Morning Shift interviewed our American Archive Project Director and WGBH Media Library and Archives Director Karen Cariani about the American Archive initiative yesterday morning. You can listen to the full radio interview here (it starts at around 00:54:45): https://soundcloud.com/morningshiftwbez/morning-shift-digitizing-the Many thanks to WBEZ's The Morning Shift host Tony Sarabia and Director Jason Marck for reaching out to … Continue reading WBEZ Radio Interview with American Archive Project Director Karen Cariani
Meet American Archive Intern Bill Nehring
Hello. My name is Bill Nehring. I am an intern for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting at WGBH and I am writing to introduce myself. I am currently a student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management and I am most interested in moving … Continue reading Meet American Archive Intern Bill Nehring
♥ Happy Valentine’s Day from the American Archive and Chicago Public Media! ♥
Happy Valentine's Day! Love is in the air today as we share with you a clip from the American Archive, contributed by Chicago Public Media (WBEZ), featuring Little Milton singing "I Want to Love You" at the Chicago Blues Festival in June of 1987. "The Chicago Blues Festival has been a Chicago institution for over 30 … Continue reading ♥ Happy Valentine’s Day from the American Archive and Chicago Public Media! ♥
George McGovern Speaks in Dayton, Ohio
In June 1972, Presidential Democratic Party candidate George McGovern spoke in the city of Dayton, Ohio. Local public radio station WYSO-FM, located on the campus of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, sent a staff member to record the event. When asked by a campaign staffer whether people around the Dayton area were for McGovern or Nixon, the … Continue reading George McGovern Speaks in Dayton, Ohio
Managing and Preserving Your Born-Digital Files
Over the past couple of months, the American Archive project team has been working with stations to contribute born-digital or previously digitized files to the American Archive. That is, the types of material we are now gathering for submission into the archive already exist on file-based media, such as Quicktime video files or .wav audio … Continue reading Managing and Preserving Your Born-Digital Files
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