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Keeping
the
Broadcast

Historic
Record

An Archive of Public Media
in the Making
Karen Cariani, WGBH
Ca...

americanarchive.org

@amarchivepub

facebook.com/
amarchivepub

Karen
Cariani,

AAPB
Project
Director,
WGBH

@kcariani

Joint collaboration between WGBH
and the Library of Congress

•  An unprecedented and historic collection of
American public radio and television content
•  Dates back through the 1950...

Who
are
we?

WGBH
Media
Library
and
Archives

Library
of

Congress

© 2010 WGBH 9

•  40,000 hours of digital material
initially from over 100 stations
•  2.5 million inventory records from
120 stat...

Challenges
of
digital
media

•  Varying file formats
•  File failure when moving the files from one
location t...

© 2010 WGBH 12
Vision
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting seeks to
preserve and make accessible significant histor...

13
Mission
• Be a focal point for discoverability of historical public media content;
• Coordinate a national effort to pr...

Current
Status

•  Accession the 40,000 hours of digitized files
into the LOC systems
•  Launched a website for publ...

Launched
New
Projects

•  NET Catalog
– Build a national inventory of titles created for
National Educational Tel...

•  Developing an Executive
Advisory Council to
“inform and guide the
strategic direction of the
American Archive”
•  Ident...

Long
term
goals

•  Grow the collection by adding new inventory
records and digitized materials
•  Help public me...

PBCore

•  Continue the development of PBCore as a
standard for media materials
•  Re-engage the PBCore community for i...

Next
steps

•  Allow on-line access to as much as possible,
rights permitting, to the proxy files
•  Develop Sustain...

Casey
Davis,

AAPB
Project
Manager,
WGBH

@caseyedavis1

Website
Development

Website
Development

•  Initial launch in April 2015, with access to 2.5 million
inventory records
•  Responsive des...

Data Audio and Video

https://github.com/WGBH/AAPB2

Metadata

•  Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary
– Descriptive
– Administrative
– Technical/Instantiation
– Extensions
pbcore.org

Archival
Management
System

(AMS)
github.com/avpreserve/ams

•  Developed by AVPreserve
•  LAMP stack appli...

To fully catalog the AAPB collection, it would take one person 32 years
working full time. So now we’re focusing on normal...

Metadata

•  Titles
•  Contributing
Organization
•  Identifiers
•  Description
•  Date
•  Asset Type
•  Genres
•  Creat...

Our advanced
search, following
the Google model.

A way for users
to explore the
collection by
geographic
location.

A way for users
who don’t know
what they are
looking for to
dive in to the
collection

There’s a lot of
stuff on our site.
Keeping the
access facet
always expanded
w/ help text may
help users avoid
confusion.

Online
Reading
Room

“We
make
the
ORR
and
all

content
therein
available
in

accordance
with
the
copyrig...

ORR
Rules
of
Use

•  To view or listen to content in the ORR, users
will be required to acknowledge the ORR
Ru...

Steps
to
Determining
ORR
Access

•  October 2014 Rights Meeting: reviewed many of the challenges facing
acc...

Alan
Gevinson,

AAPB
Project
Director,

Library
of
Congress

The
American
Archive
of
Public
Broadcasting

Access and Use
Place and Time

Access and Use:
Place
•  Massachusetts: 27%
•  Maryland: 11%
•  Minnesota: 8%
•  New York: 7%
•  California: 6%
•  New Jer...

Access
and
Use:
Place

Massachusetts: 27% (mostly from WGBH)
•  broadcasting on radio since 1951, TV since 195...

Access and Use:
Place Region Assets %
•  Northeast 19,202 31.1
•  Mid-Atlantic 14,974 24.2
•  Midwest 11,262 18.2
•  West ...

Access
and
Use:
Time

Dates
of
creation
or
broadcast
in
45%
of
62,000
records

•...

AAPB
•  national history
•  regional history
•  local history
•  news
•  public affairs
•  civic affairs
•  religion
•  ed...

Scholars’

•  “I have long been frustrated ... gaining access
to the vast audiovisual record of my period”
•  “content ...

AAPB
can
be
of
value
for
scholarship
because
of
...

Geographical breadth
•  to uncover ways...

AAPB
can
be
of
value
for
scholarship
because
...

•  scholarship pertaining to the period ...

The
Importance
of

Local
History
...
•  “emphasis on diversity”
•  “the history of the nation is many
d...

The
Importance
of
Local
History
for
...

•  relating “national experiences to larg...

The
Importance
of
Local
Civil
Rights
History
...

•  “publication of local and state stu...

Civil Rights Movement
•  Charleston, SC 1960
•  Tallahassee, FL 1959-61
•  McComb, MS 1961
•  Baton Rogue, LS 1961
•  Monr...

Improving
Scholarly
Access
to
AAPB

•  Create transcripts
•  Enlist subject specialists to determine
search...

The
Digital
Archive

The Library of Congress &
Preserving Data Sets
James Snyder, Library of Congress

AAPB’s
Permanent
Home

•  Library of Congress’ data archive
Data Processing Systems Data Storage System

LOC
Data
Archive

•  Connected by DWDM fiber to remote site & DC research rooms
58

LOC
Data
Archive

•  Two copies, mirrored, geographically dispersed
•  Oracle StorageTek SL-8500 data tape robot
...

LOC
Digital
Repository

•  200 TiB SAN
–  Staging area for transmission to backup site and the tape library
–  Ba...

Digital
Repository
Requirements

•  Data set is effectively permanent
–  Temporal engineering & planning required...

Content
Speciﬁcations

•  Keep the original file ‘for the record’
•  Convert moving image essence and all metadata t...

LOC
Digital
Archive:
The
Future

•  Long term archival storage planning:
–  Regular migrations (every 5-7 y...

LOC
&
AAPB:
The
Future

•  Prepare for future collections
–  So much content left to migrate
•  Learn from ...

Thank
You!

The Digital Archive:
The Library of Congress & Preserving Data Sets
James Snyder, Library of Congress

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