AAPB: National Federation of Community Broadcasters

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a collaboration between
WGBH and the Library of Congress
Seeking to preserve and make accessible significant historical co...

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KAREN CARIANI
AAPB Project Director, WGBH
Senior Director, WGBH Media Library and Archives
Karen_Cariani@wgbh.org
@kcariani

40,000 hours of digital material initially
from more than 100 stations
– 5,000 hours from born digital files
2.5 million i...

Launched New Projects
• National Educational Television (NET) Collection Catalog
Project
– Build a national inventory of t...

Public Broadcasting Metadata
Dictionary (PBCore)
– Continuing the development of PBCore
as a metadata schema for media
mat...

Challenges of Access
viewing/listening
Rights issues
– we don’t own rights to all the content, and potentially neither doe...

Metadata Media
Tech
Stack

https://github.com/WGBH/AAPB2

Metadata

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

Archival Management System (AMS)
github.com/avpreserve/ams
• Developed by AVPreserve
• LAMP stack application
• Licensed u...

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
Creators
Contributors
Publishers
...

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.

SLIS Student Contributions
• Working with interns to help catalog
– They get experience, we get cataloging!
• Working with...

ALAN GEVINSON
AAPB Project Director, Library of Congress
Special Assistant to the Chief, National Audio-Visual Conservatio...

Goal: A Centralized Web Portal for Discovery
• All AAPB digitized content on specific topics
discoverable through single s...

State Percent
Massachusetts 27%
Maryland 11%
Minnesota 8%
New York 7%
California 6%
New Jersey 5%
Montana 4%
South Carolin...

Overall Collection Stats: Region
Region Number of Assets %
Northeast 19,202 31.1
Mid-Atlantic 14,974 24.2
Midwest 11,262 1...

Decade Number of Assets
1940 – 1949 3
1950 – 1959 1,057
1960 – 1969 3,687
1970 – 1979 2,950
1980 – 1989 6,587
1990 – 1999 ...

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

AAPB can be of value for scholarship because of ...
Geographical breadth
• to uncover ways that
national and global
proces...

Scholars’
• “I have long been frustrated ... gaining access to
the vast audiovisual record of my period”
• “content [is] h...

Steps to Determining ORR Access
• Joints rights meeting (October 2014)
• Reviewed existing contributor agreements
• Quitcl...

Genre Number of Assets
Magazine 2,657
Talk Show 2,628
News Report 2,018
Event Coverage 414
Call-in 329
Documentary 286
Int...

AAPB can be of value for scholarship because ...
• scholarship pertaining to the period of 1973 onwards is “limited,
fragm...

The Importance of
Local History ...
• “emphasis on diversity”
• “the history of the nation is many
different stories, no o...

The Importance of Local History for ...
• relating “national experiences to larger processes and local
resolutions.”
Thoma...

The Importance of Local Civil Rights History ...
• “publication of local and state studies ... marked a major shift in the...

Civil Rights Movement • Montgomery, AL 1956
• Tallahassee, FL 1959-61
• Charleston, SC 1960
• McComb, MS 1961
• Baton Rogu...

NAEB (National Association
of Educational Broadcasters)
Radio Network • “a first-class journalist coup [that]
constituted ...

RACHEL CURTIS
AAPB Project Coordinator, Library of Congress
Digital Conversion Specialist, Library of Congress
rcur@loc.gov

Preservation at the Library
• Our goal is to make sure these files are available
for posterity
• Files are converted into ...

Checksums
• A digit or hash representing the sum of the
correct digits in a piece of stored or
transmitted digital data, a...

Quality Control
• Detect possible issues that occurred during
digitization
• Cannot play through everything, but some
thin...

Metadata
• Metadata is preserved along with the digitized
files
• We import the metadata given to WGBH for
each collection...

Ingestion process
• Files arrive at the Library on LTO tape or hard drive with a
master list of file names
• Catalog recor...

Best Practices
• Long term archival storage
– Migrations every 3-4 years
– Routinely validating checksums
– Verifying arch...

Future of the Digital Archive
• Learn from past collections
• Prepare for born digital content
• Prepare for complex media...

Ingestion Limitations
• Technical limitations
• Staff limitations
• Working with differing specifications

Growing the Collection
• Working with donors and vendors
• Dealing with collections in different stages
– Already digitize...

• PBS NewsHour
• American Masters
• NET programs
• NHPR
• Don Voegeli Collection
• Southern California
Public Radio
• Ken ...

CASEY E. DAVIS
AAPB Project Manager, WGBH
Casey_Davis@wgbh.org
@caseyedavis1

Get your
station on
the map!

Why get involved in the AAPB?
So that your station can begin to identify, manage and preserve your collection
So that othe...

Before you can
contribute content
to the AAPB, you
first need to get a
handle on what you
have and where it is
located.

Start with an item-level inventory
Same row
continued...
Download a template:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/americanarchive.org...

Inventory recommendations
Do not play back the tapes. Simply type into your spreadsheet the information you can glean from...

Send us your spreadsheet inventory
for ingestion into the AMS

We’ll make
your records
available on
the AAPB
public
website.

Thinking
about
digitizing
your
collection?

Managing your digital files
Many producers are creating “born digital” content.
This material is even more vulnerable than...

Contributing digital files to AAPB
AAPB can acquire a certain number of hours of digital content per year.
For your collec...

FAQ
Q: Will my station be able to retain copyright ownership to our collection?
A: Yes, though you are donating the digita...

AAPB Technical Specifications
Once a collection has been approved for submission to AAPB, AAPB works closely
with collecti...

How can my station support this work?
Hire an archivist.
Advocate for staff resources to be allocated to archiving your co...

Grant programs
Institute of Museum and Library Services – imls.gov
Council on Library and Information Resources – clir.org...

Get involved in the archiving community!
Association of Moving Image Archivists
2016 Conference: Nov. 9-12, Pittsburgh
Web...

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