We're posting this today on behalf of the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC). If you work at a radio or tv station and have audio digitization needs, please take a moment to complete their survey. The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) has received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help address the … Continue reading Attention stations with audio digitization needs: Please take this survey!
Category: Technical Information
New Guides on the Website
Today we published three new guides that will help staff at participating stations navigate the Archival Management System (AMS), view records in the AMS, and edit descriptions for digitized media. The guides include: Using the AMS for the first time: this guide provides an overview of the functionality of the AMS and helps users navigate it to find the … Continue reading New Guides on the Website
PBCore is Back in Action!
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!
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
Onward toward the 5,000 hour goal
I hope that you all enjoyed wonderful holidays with family and friends, and my best wishes to you and yours for a happy and prosperous New Year 2014. Now that the holidays are over, we are excited to start moving forward with the addition of 5,000 more hours of born-digital or previously digitized materials to … Continue reading Onward toward the 5,000 hour goal
How to view your digitized materials in the AMS
Today I wanted to share with you the step-by-step procedures for viewing your digitized materials in the Archival Management System (AMS). Visit ams.avpreserve.com to log-in. If you are a participating station and do not know your log-in credentials, email me and I can set you up with a login ID and password. Once you have logged … Continue reading How to view your digitized materials in the AMS
Survey: What do you want in an export?
Hello stations! We're working with our Archival Management System (AMS) vendor to determine metadata export functionality in the AMS. Since the Content Inventory Project, our team and our vendor have done a lot of data clean-up and normalization. We also plan to continue adding more description to the digitized materials (with permission from stations). We … Continue reading Survey: What do you want in an export?
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