Born Digital Karen Cariani Director Alison Bassett Compliance

Born Digital Karen Cariani, Director Alison Bassett, Compliance Manager

Who we are: WGBH Media Library and Archives

The Analog to Digital Challenge

The Analog Challenge

Common (and some not so common) formats § 16 mm film (some 35 mm) § 2” videotape § 1” videotape § 3/4” videotape § Betacam § Betamax § MII © 2011 WGBH § § § Digital betacam D 1, D 2, D 3, D 4, D 5 DVCam DVCPro & DVCPro. HD Mini DV & HDV

Analog migration § 2” tape ------> digi-beta ----> digital file? § 2” tape --------------->

The Good News § Known quantity in terms of digitizing guidelines § Pre-existing data to add to the records

Where do we go from here? § TAPE - Condition Machinery - Priorities ©

The Born Digital Challenge

The shift from analog to digital content creation § Before we had 1 shoot, 10 physical tapes, many shots per tape § Now each time the camera is turned off, new file created § Now 1 shoot, many files for each shot © 2011 WGBH

Who wants to be the sheriff in the wild west? § Different formats being created all the time. § Different cameras generate different folder structures § Creators may vary codecs within the same camera/shoot § Keeping pace with plugins to play/capture media © 2011 WGBH

That was easy, wasn’t it? § Plug-ins to view files § Depending on the file type we may have to re-wrap to a quicktime wrapper, or fully transcode the source file § Redundant storage of raw and unwrapped materials § Quality of data © 2011 WGBH

This isn’t rocket science § YOU’LL SAVE MONEY!! § YOU’LL SAVE TIME!! § YOU’LL SAVE YOUR SOURCES § YOU’LL SAVE YOUR SANITY WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop

Catastrophic results WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop

Metadata Entry in the Field: In-camera - encourage tagging files with data. User-generated clip naming --- (Health 001, Health 002) Card Labeling Content Labeling through folder structures

Folder Structure § Create single folder — PBS NOLA, Project Code, or Job Number — Abbreviated working title — Description

Folder Structure § Create folders by type — Standardized naming conventions — Type, Resolution, Frame-rate

Folder Structure § Create folders by card — Assign unique number — Continue numbers — Add description — Place ENTIRE card contents into this folder!!

Video, video, where for art thou video? © 2011 WGBH

Storage and retrieval How do we: § Capture the audio and video generated by myriad cameras § Store the project information to allow potential re-edit § Store files with rich, meaningful metadata § Store born-digital materials § Display and retrieve born-digital materials © 2011 WGBH

Proposed tapeless workflow § Create a mapping document between filemaker and DAM § Used to generate an xml stylesheet § Video is ingested simultaneously with the metadata from filemaker using the xml stylesheet § Technical metadata is ingested simultaneously with the video and production data using the xml generated by the source digital files © 2011 WGBH

Original footage in DAM:

Open Vault

Open Vault projects Mellon Digital Library Project • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation • Develop a prototype and tools for on-line access to media materials for scholarly research and use Vietnam Digital Library Project • IMLS • Provide on-line access to materials gathered and created for the 1982 TV series Vietnam: A Television History Boston Local TV News Digital Library: 1959 -2000 • IMLS and CLIR • Post catalog for over 70, 000 news stories

New Open Vault http: //openvault. wgbh. org/

Open Vault Collection Pages

Vietnam Collection Page

Results page

Records page

Records page: transcript search

Tools Annotation Tagging Save Embed…

Relationship Map

Fedora Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture § flexible to accommodate all user needs by wide range of describing criteria § object can be described by different set of descriptors of different uses § currently plan is to sit on top of DAM for common storage with ability to share digital objects between projects

Content model Content Model

The Boston TV News Digital Library: 1960 -2000 Partners: WGBH Media Library and Archives (WGBH) Northeast Historic Film (NHF) Boston Public Library (BPL) Cambridge Community TV (CCTV)

Partner collections

Thank you Karen Cariani Director, WGBH Media Library and Archives Email: karen_cariani@wgbh. org Alison Bassett Compliance Manager Email: alison_bassett@wgbh. org § http: //openvault. wgbh. org © 2011 WGBH