Open Source Solutions for Moving Image Archives and Libraries

Open Source Solutions for Moving Image Archives and Libraries WGBH January 28, 2009

What are we doing here?
Trying to figure out how to manage our collections efficiently and economically
Costly
Time consuming and laborious
Complicated
Equipment needs
Hard to raise large sums of money

Trying to see if as a community we can share and build upon each others work to find solutions for all of us
What is the big picture?
What are the small pieces?

Trying to see if there are open source solutions we can use to help
What’s already out there?
What works for our needs?
What needs still have to be addressed?

What kinds of stuff are we managing?
Film
Video
Related documents
Metadata
Descriptive data
Audio
Stills

HELP
Isn’t there something we can use that adequately describes a collection like that without having to pay a fortune for it.
Or are there pieces of the whole puzzle that we can begin to work on to ultimately get to the solution that works

Challenges we are trying to overcome: some of the pieces Others?
Cost
Labor
Volume
Access issues
rights

Today’s agenda
PBCore presentation
Dave MacCarn
Overview of repositories
Chris Beer
Cataloging tools
Seth Kaufmann
What’s next?

Open Source Solutions for Moving Image Archives and Libraries

by Courtney Michael

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