2. An unprecedented and historic collection of
American public radio and television
content - dating back through the 1950s will be permanently preserved and made
available to the public through a
collaboration between the Library of
Congress and WGBH Boston as the
American Archive of Public
Broadcasting.
5. Public Broadcasting Act
of 1967
Creates the
Corporation for Public
Broadcasting (CPB) &
mandates it to
establish a library and
archives.
1977: Internal
PBS Report
After 24 years of
noncommercial
television, there is no
archive of public TV in
the US
1979: WGBH
Media Archives
founded
WGBH establishes a
records management
and archives program
staffed by professional
archivists
6. 1979: PBS operates a
Public Television Library
and Broadcast Archive
Operations cease in
1983 in response to a
lowered budget
forecast.
1993: PBS &
Library of
Congress enter
agreement
PBS agrees to transfer
the “best copy” of “all
PBS programs...” to the
Library of Congress
1997:
LOC Report
Library of Congress
issues report on the
state of TV & Video
preservation
7. 2004: Move toward
preserving born-digital
files
WNET, WGBH, PBS &
NYU, funded by the
NDIIPP, introduce
Preserving Digital
Public Television
(PDPTV)
2007: APTS
proposes digital
repository
Proposal to develop a
digital repository is
sent to Congress
2007: CPB
consults with
stakeholders
CPB hosts a meeting
with stakeholders to
discuss creation of an
American Archive
8. 2007:
Congressional
Support
Senate & House
Appropriations
Committees support a
plan to digitize public
TV and radio libraries
2008: CPB
study
Over $10 billion
invested in content no
longer available to the
public; recommends
creating a prototype
Archive
2009: Pilot
Project
Oregon Public
Broadcasting leads
effort to identify and
digitize 2,500 hours of
content at 24 stations
11. Initial Collection
• 40,000 hours of digital material
initially from over 100 stations
• 2.5 million inventory records from
120 stations
• Identified over 3 million items
kept at stations, archives,
producers, university collections
across the country
15. Goals for Next 2 Years
• Ingest the 40,000 hours of digitized files into the LOC
systems
• Develop a website for public access to the 2.5 million
records from the inventory project
• Allow public access to proxy files on
location at WGBH and LOC
• Rights permitting, allow as much on-line access as
possible to the proxy files
16. PBCore
• Continue the
development of PBCore
as a standard for media
materials
• Re-engage the PBCore
community for input in
the continued
development
• Outreach to new
adopters of PBCore
17. Long-Term Goals
• Grow the collection by adding new inventory records
and digitized materials
• Help public media organizations with archiving,
digitizing, and access to their collections
• Build a consortium for preservation and access
of public media archive content
• Update existing records with richer descriptive data
once materials are available in digital format
• Develop on-line curated collections
Editor's Notes
With the American Archive project we have an opportunity the make even more material across the country accessible.