We're thrilled to announce the launch of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting website at americanarchive.org! BOSTON, Mass. (April 7, 2015) – The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a collaboration between the Library of Congress, WGBH Boston and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, launched a new website at americanarchive.org today, providing the public with … Continue reading Check out the new AAPB website at americanarchive.org!
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Report of the PBCore RDF Ontology Hackathon
The following is a post by Karen Cariani, Director of the WGBH Media Library and Archives and Project Director for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. This past weekend a group of dedicated PBCore enthusiasts met prior to the Code4Lib conference in a suburban Portland, Oregon house for two days. It was a healthy mix of … Continue reading Report of the PBCore RDF Ontology Hackathon
Crawford finishes AAPB digitization of 40,000 hours!
The following is a guest post by Emily Halevy, Director of Media Management Sales at Crawford Media Services. In this blog post, Emily records her interview with Chip Stephenson, Crawford Project Manager, and David Braught, Crawford Logistics Coordinator. Crawford and the AAPB Project Team recently completed the American Archive of Public Broadcasting Digitization Project, funded by the … Continue reading Crawford finishes AAPB digitization of 40,000 hours!
Every Picture Tells a Story
The following is a guest post by Producer/Writer Elizabeth Deane. Every Picture Tells a Story had its premiere in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress in February, 2014, at the launch of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB). Sound and images from six decades of public media filled that stately space, giving the … Continue reading Every Picture Tells a Story
New project for the new year: AAPB awarded a grant from CLIR
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
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
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
♥ 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! ♥
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