The document discusses the Moving Image Collections (MIC) project which aims to create a union catalog and provide access to moving image collections held by various organizations. The MIC project grew out of national plans to preserve film and television in the US. It will provide a central portal with a union catalog of metadata records harvested from participating institutions. The metadata will be mapped to various standards like MPEG-7 and Dublin Core to make the collections more accessible. The project is developing cataloging and mapping utilities to help diverse institutions participate and expose their materials.

1. Moving Image Collections Video, Education, and Open Content: Best Practices Archiving – Best Practices      Columbia University May 22, 2007 Jane D. Johnson [email_address]

2. A Tool for Discovery Moving images Organizations holding moving images Information about moving images, preservation

3. The MIC Mission To immerse moving images in the education mainstream, recognizing that what society uses, it values, and what it values, it preserves.

4. Moving Image Collections AMIA-Library of Congress collaboration grew out of U.S. National Moving Image Preservation Plans NSF-funded (National Science Digital Library: http://nsdl.org )

5. Union Catalog

6. Union Catalog

7. Archive Directory

8. Archive Directory

9. Crisis in Film Preservation Redefining Film Preservation (1994) Television and Video Preservation (1997) LC asks AMIA for implementation plan

10. Components Union catalog of moving images Archive directory Informational resources Portal structure Mapping utility Cataloging utility (in development by Rutgers) Service providers directory (in development at GaTech)

11. Moving Image Collections A window to the world’s moving images

13. Moving Image Collections A window to the world’s moving images

15. Cataloging Utility Front-end input form for union catalog records Administrative, technical, descriptive, structural metadata Low overhead, infrastructure requirements METS implementation Workflow Management System (WMS)

16. Who is MIC? Development Team Rutgers University Libraries University of Washington Georgia Institute of Technology MIC Evaluation Team (Rutgers SCILS) Science Educators’ Advisory Board Voluntary community participants

17. Alpha Sites (Science) CNN Library of Congress National Geographic Television National Library of Medicine Oregon Health and Science University ResearchChannel (Univ. of Washington) Smithsonian Institution

18. Alpha Sites (Humanities) Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection Northeast Historic Film Pacific Film Archive Prelinger Collection at the Internet Archive Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research

19. Diversity in the Field Collections (genres, forms, subjects, formats) Institutional types Institutional sizes Institutional missions Financial resources available Metadata standards employed Constituents Educators

20. Metadata Strategy: Principles Promote metadata standards Embrace diversity Extend standard metadata use to all Enable exploration of new technologies Provide a model extensible to other archive and library communities

21. Promoting Standards Illustrate by example the value of standards Commitment to open source standards-based interoperability protocols Educate archivists in use of standards

22. Embracing Diversity Rich mapping Supporting range of information needs Allowing meaningful participation in other collaborations using different schema OCLC (MARC) National Science Digital Library (Dublin Core) Extensible beyond descriptive metadata Multiple schema Mapping utility

23. Embracing Diversity Encourages participation Opens new avenues for record distribution

24. MIC Mappings MPEG7 MARC DC archive’s own MPEG7 MARC DC archive’s own bib utilities retrieved via Z39.50 MIC portals Harvested via OAI archive “ core” records can export to each archive MIC DV portal NSDL other consortia Core Registry remote dbs remote dbs

25. Metadata Strategy: Principles Promote metadata standards Embrace diversity Extend standard metadata use to all Enable exploration of new technologies

26. Extending metadata use to all Cataloging utility (METS implementation) Comprehensive source metadata for analog moving images Technical metadata for digital video and audio streams

27. METS – LC encoding standard Library of Congress standard for encoding data on Access Management Preservation Incorporates all metadata needed to manage a moving image asset through its life cycle Descriptive metadata Technical metadata Preservation metadata Rights metadata

28. MPEG-7 Developed specifically for moving images Supports multiple manifestations Accommodates technical, administrative metadata Supports automatic generation of segments Supports non-textual (low level) indexing

29. A template can be created and used to enter many objects with common metadata entries, such as your repository’s address. Cataloging Utility

30. MIC Mapping Wizard Submit application Send sample records Submit list of data elements (field list) MIC populates template (wizard) Organization selects organization’s equivalents of MIC data elements

31. MIC Mapping Wizard Small organizations Holdings accessible on Web Low cost In accordance with standards With existing personnel and infrastructure Larger institutions Multiple/legacy schema brought into conformance Export in a single schema

32. MIC Mapping Wizard Individual collectors Have a platform for exposing materials to a wider public Expose unknown footage and genres to Scholars Educators General public

33. Partnerships Library of Congress • AMIA RUL • UW • Georgia Tech WAAND • NJDH • MIC MIC • Rutgers SCILS Dozens of alpha sites