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
Category: Technical Information
AMS up and running
Good morning AAPB participants: the AMS is back up and running! Let us know if you have any trouble accessing your records or viewing or listening to your media. Feel free to contact the AAPB Project Manager anytime at casey_davis [at] wgbh [dot] org.
AMS is undergoing maintenance
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
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
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
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…
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!
New Guides on the Website
Two new guides were published on the website today that will help stations export their records from the Archival Management System as well as add additional staff members as users or admins. Click on the links below to learn more: Exporting Your Records: this guide provides instructions for exporting your records from the Archival Management System for … Continue reading New Guides on the Website
PBCore Metadata Survey
We have really appreciated all of the great feedback from stations over the past couple of weeks about future opportunities to enhance American Archive metadata records, as well as possibilities of adding new records as new assets are created. Today, we have one other request, which should only take a few minutes of your time. During … Continue reading PBCore Metadata Survey
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