The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) and Dartmouth College are pleased to announce a new collaboration in which AAPB’s Online Reading Room of public television and radio programming will now be accessible through the Media Ecology Project (MEP) at Dartmouth. The Media Ecology Project is a digital resource directed by Dartmouth Associate Professor … Continue reading AAPB Announces Collaboration with Dartmouth College Media Ecology Project
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Upcoming AAPB Webinar Featuring Kathryn Gronsbell, Digital Collections Manager at Carnegie Hall
Photo courtesy of Rebecca Benson, @jeybecques, PBPF Fellow at University of Missouri. This Thursday, March 15th at 8 pm EST, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) staff will host a webinar with Kathryn Gronsbell, Digital Collections Manager at Carnegie Hall and will cover topics in documentation, including why documentation is important, what to think about when recording … Continue reading Upcoming AAPB Webinar Featuring Kathryn Gronsbell, Digital Collections Manager at Carnegie Hall
Celebrate Women’s History Month by Preserving Women’s Voices in Public Media
One of the most fascinating aspects of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is discovering how local broadcasting stations used their platforms to communicate national issues to local audiences. As second-wave feminism gained momentum between the years 1960 to 1980, WNED from Buffalo, New York documented the movement's ripple effect in a half-hour public … Continue reading Celebrate Women’s History Month by Preserving Women’s Voices in Public Media
AAPB Debuts New Exhibit “Protecting Places: Historic Preservation and Public Broadcasting”
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) has launched a new digital exhibit titled "Protecting Places: Historic Preservation and Public Broadcasting." Historic preservation is more than just saving old buildings from the bulldozer. Histories can be shared or silenced depending upon the preservation of places that represent a larger story. AAPB Digital Exhibits Intern Kara … Continue reading AAPB Debuts New Exhibit “Protecting Places: Historic Preservation and Public Broadcasting”
Upcoming Webinar: AAPB’s Quality Control Tools and Techniques for Ingesting Digitized Collections
Oklahoma mentor Lisa Henry (left) cleaning a U-matic deck with Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellow Tanya Yule. This Thursday, February 15th at 8 pm EST, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) staff will host a webinar covering quality control tools and technologies used when ingesting digitized collections into the AAPB archive, including MDQC, MediaConch, Sonic Visualizer, and QCTools. The public … Continue reading Upcoming Webinar: AAPB’s Quality Control Tools and Techniques for Ingesting Digitized Collections
Historic WRVR-FM Archives to be Digitized, Preserved and Made Available in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Historic WRVR-FM Archives Receives CLIR Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Award More than 4,000 hours of cultural and political radio programming from the 60s and 70s to be made public Morningside Heights, NY – The Council on Library and Information Resources has awarded a grant of $330,000 to digitize, preserve, and make publicly … Continue reading Historic WRVR-FM Archives to be Digitized, Preserved and Made Available in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
AAPB Welcomes Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship Spring 2018 Cohort
Following up on our post this past September announcing our IMLS-funded Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship (PBPF) project, we’re very excited to introduce our first cohort of Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellows! PBPF fellows, mentors and project staff at Immersion Week in Boston The PBPF supports students enrolled in non-specialized graduate programs to pursue digital preservation projects at … Continue reading AAPB Welcomes Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship Spring 2018 Cohort
Resources Roundup: AAPB Presentations from 2017 AMIA Conference
Earlier this month the American Archive of Public Broadcasting staff hosted several workshops at the 2017 Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) conference in New Orleans. Their presentations on workflows, crowdsourcing, and best copyright practices are now available online! Be sure to also check out AMIA's YouTube channel for recorded sessions. THURSDAY, November 30th PBCore … Continue reading Resources Roundup: AAPB Presentations from 2017 AMIA Conference
Announcing ROLL THE CREDITS: Classifying and Transcribing Text with Zooniverse
Today we're launching ROLL THE CREDITS, a new Zooniverse project to engage the public in helping us catalog unseen content in the AAPB archive. Zooniverse is the "world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research." Zooniverse volunteers (like you!) are helping the AAPB in classifying and transcribing the text from extracted frames of uncataloged public … Continue reading Announcing ROLL THE CREDITS: Classifying and Transcribing Text with Zooniverse
Upcoming Webinar: Building AAPB Participation into Digitization Grant Proposals
Building AAPB Participation into Digitization Grant Proposals: Requirements, Recommendations and Workflows Tuesday, December 12, 2017 12:00pm ET Webinar Registration form: https://goo.gl/forms/lWWU5GgFkv09bNFi2 Direct meeting URL: http://wgbh1.adobeconnect.com/aapb_grant-proposals-1/ Curious about getting involved in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB)? Seeking information about the workflows and requirements for contributing digitized content and/or metadata to the AAPB? Writing a grant proposal … Continue reading Upcoming Webinar: Building AAPB Participation into Digitization Grant Proposals