Open Source Solutions for Moving Image Archives and

LibrariesWGBH

January 28, 2009

What are we doing here?

• Trying to figure out how to manage our collections efficiently and economically– Costly– Time consuming and laborious– Complicated– Equipment needs– Hard to raise large sums of money

What are we doing here?

• Trying to see if as a community we can share and build upon each others work to find solutions for all of us– What is the big picture?– What are the small pieces?

What are we doing here?

• Trying to see if there are open source solutions we can use to help– What’s already out there?– What works for our needs?– What needs still have to be addressed?

What kinds of stuff are we managing?

• Film

• Video

• Related documents

• Metadata

• Descriptive data

• Audio

• Stills

HELP

• Isn’t there something we can use that adequately describes a collection like that without having to pay a fortune for it.

• Or are there pieces of the whole puzzle that we can begin to work on to ultimately get to the solution that works

Challenges we are trying to overcome: some of the pieces

Others?

• Cost

• Labor

• Volume

• Access issues– rights

Today’s agenda

• PBCore presentation – Dave MacCarn

• Overview of repositories– Chris Beer

• Cataloging tools– Seth Kaufmann

• What’s next?