WGBH, in collaboration with the Library of Congress, has been awarded a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to lead the National Educational Television (NET) Collection Catalog Project, the first project to build upon the American Archive of Public Broadcasting initiative. This project will involve the creation of a national catalog … Continue reading New project for the new year: AAPB awarded a grant from CLIR
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Interim Access Portal
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting is pleased to announce our new (interim) discovery portal to access inventory records. These records were created during the CPB-funded and WGBH-managed American Archive Content Inventory Project (AACIP), an inventory effort to gather item-level PBCore data from legacy at-risk audiovisual assets obtained from public media stations across the nation: … Continue reading Interim Access Portal
PBCore Webinar Recording
On October 23, 2014, the AMIA PBCore Advisory Subcommittee’s Education Team offered a webinar titled “PBCore: A How-to and Why-to Webinar.” The presenters offered contextual background; explained the benefits and reasons why PBCore is perfectly suited for managing audiovisual collections; offered step-by-step guidance on inventorying av assets and getting started with PBCore; and described the … Continue reading PBCore Webinar Recording
Report of the AAPB Rights Meeting
Last month, staff from the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS) and Office of the General Counsel (OGC) met in Boston with WGBH Media Library and Archives staff and counsel from WGBH Business and Legal Affairs, as well as Representatives from the Cyberlaw Clinic and Fellows community at Harvard University's Berkman Center … Continue reading Report of the AAPB Rights Meeting
AAPB Presentations at #AMIA14
Earlier this month, the AAPB team traveled to beautiful city of Savannah, Georgia to attend the annual Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) conference. AAPB team members Karen Cariani, Casey Davis, Lauren Sorensen, and Sadie Roosa gave multiple presentations and coordinated events throughout the conference, including Karen's presentation on WGBH's new open-source digital repository, HydraDAM; … Continue reading AAPB Presentations at #AMIA14
Meet Sadie Roosa, our new American Archive team member
Hi! I'm Sadie Roosa, and I'm very excited to join the American Archive team here at WGBH. I've already met many of you before, through emails and phone calls, when I was helping to wrap up the Content Inventory Project. In the meantime, I worked on several other WGBH projects, and got to manage the … Continue reading Meet Sadie Roosa, our new American Archive team member
Join the American Archive Meet-Ups
We're organizing a meet-up among the American Archive team and participating stations and organizations to talk about issues related to archiving, digital file management, storage and preservation best practices, metadata, working with volunteers and interns, and other archival-related topics that participants want to discuss. The meet-ups will be very informal and will provide an opportunity for stations … Continue reading Join the American Archive Meet-Ups
We’re on Facebook!
Hey folks, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting has joined Facebook! Find us at http://www.facebook.com/amarchivepub, and stay up to date with the project by 'liking' our page. As always, we appreciate your support!
Update your bookmarks for the AMS!
The team at AudioVisual Preservation Solutions (AVPS) has just completed their contract with the American Archive to build the Archival Management System (AMS). The AMS is a database where stations can access their records created during the Content Inventory Project and view the files that have been digitized through the American Archive Digitization Project. The new … Continue reading Update your bookmarks for the AMS!
PBS Annual Meeting Presentation & Takeaways
The American Archive team from WGBH presented at the PBS Annual Meeting in San Francisco. We had the wonderful opportunity to meet many of our station collaborators in person and gather tremendously useful feedback from participants. Many thanks to all of those who attended the session and reception, as well as those who took the time … Continue reading PBS Annual Meeting Presentation & Takeaways