Making the most of moving image metadataHow the Scottish Screen Archive is describing, digitising and displaying
film from the national collection
Scotland’s Moving Image Collection
• Set up in 1976 to locate, preserve & provide access to Scotland’s moving image heritage
• Part of the National Library of Scotland, 2007
• Documentary, promotional, amateur home movie, newsreel, experimental shorts… and everything in between!
• Film, video and born digital
Turning Detective - some cataloguing challenges
• Unique, fragile material & obsolete formats• Lack of (or too much!) supporting data• Title / Date / Place / Personality /
Organisation• Shotlisting• Completeness
• Who?
• What?
• Why?
• Where?
• When?
Digitising• Analogue to Digital transfer• Speed correction• Quality control• Filenaming• In-house or Outsource?
Keeping track of it all = more metadata
Displaying
• Copyright
• Quality
• Ethics• Storage costs / IT infrastructure
Some web resources
• http://ssa.nls.uk/
• http://discover.nls.uk/
• http://www.sabsonline.com
• http://scotlandonscreen.org.uk
• http://www.youtube.com/user/NLofScotland
Balancing act!Time vs Resources
Yes, we can!• Technical challenges, rights management,
cost… there are lots of reasons ‘not to’…. • … but Scotland’s film heritage is for
everyone to share in and learn about• Remain professional, embrace change, seek
partnerships or funding opportunities• Just do it.
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