Moving History: Promoting Moving Image Archive Collections in an Emerging Digital Age

Gray, Frank; Sheppard, Elaine

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“…Moreover the proliferation of digital content necessitates a high standard of search precision in order to isolate the desired material (M. Addis, Lowe, & Middleton, 2009;Viana & Alves, 2009). In addition, there is an increasing expectation that access is greatly improved when audio-visual content is digital (Bergeron, 2007;Rubin, 2011;Sandom & Enser, 2003) especially among members of the public (Wylie, 2007), academics (Auffret & Prié, 1999;Gray & Sheppard, 2004;Kirkegaard Lunn, 2009;Michael et al, 2009) and professional users of images (Jörgensen & Jörgensen, 2005;McCay-Peet & Toms, 2009). While these three user groups feature prominently in the research there is much less research that focuses on how archivists search their collections.…”

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Digital Archiving Practices in Audiovisual Archives: An Exploration of the Use of Media Asset Management Systems in Television Broadcasting Organizations

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<p>Research Problem: Over the last decade television audiovisual archives have undergone major changes in response to the introduction of digital media and digital production systems, particularly in relation to television news. While there is significant research into how the use of digital technology affects other user groups within the television broadcasting sector, such as journalists, there is very little that focuses on the work of audiovisual archivists. Methodology: Semi-structured interviews were used to explore the experiences of television audiovisual archivists who have been involved with the implementation and use of digital media management systems. Questions focused on three main areas: selection and appraisal, cataloguing, and search and retrieval. Results: Interview data provided detailed descriptions of the processes and actions that audiovisual archivists employ in the course of their daily work. Qualitative analysis of the data is used to identify the problems that audiovisual archivists experience and the methods they use to address these problems. It also provides insight into the ways archivists incorporate media management tasks into their routines. Implications: Television archives are very much still in a transition phase which is characterized by the use of multiple systems that enable access to both analogue and digital content. One area that remains problematic for some archivists is the lack of ability to incorporate quality and authority control into descriptive metadata that is created using digital media management systems. Archivists are taking on more media management responsibilities and working closer with production staff in a number of ways.</p>

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Digital Archiving Practices in Audiovisual Archives: An Exploration of the Use of Media Asset Management Systems in Television Broadcasting Organizations

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Preserving Digital Public Television: Not Just an Archive, but a New Attitude to Preserve Public Broadcasting

Rubin¹

2009

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Television production has shifted rapidly from an analog process to one where virtually all programs are created and finalized as digital files. Such productions in public television are at great risk of being lost, because practices for long-term preservation of digital video are just now emerging, and because there is no mandate for preservation within the public broadcasting system. NDIIPP funded Preserving Digital Public Television, a partnership between WNET-TV in New York, WGBH-TV in Boston, PBS and New York University, to build a model preservation repository for digital video files and to examine the broader issues related to operating such a repository. In addition to designing the repository itself, the project became a lead advocate for adopting technical and metadata standards across the television field. The project also successfully challenged the public television system to recognize that preservation is necessary to keep digital productions alive. This resulted in public broadcasting allocating money for the first time to launch an initiative with a goal of properly managing its collective archival holdings.

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Preserving Film Preservation in the Digital Era

Bastron

2013

Student Research Journal

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Moving History: Promoting Moving Image Archive Collections in an Emerging Digital Age

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Digital Archiving Practices in Audiovisual Archives: An Exploration of the Use of Media Asset Management Systems in Television Broadcasting Organizations

Digital Archiving Practices in Audiovisual Archives: An Exploration of the Use of Media Asset Management Systems in Television Broadcasting Organizations

Preserving Digital Public Television: Not Just an Archive, but a New Attitude to Preserve Public Broadcasting

Preserving Film Preservation in the Digital Era

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