Developing a Digitization Initiative at PBS

Lauren WorkWebWise 2014

2/11/2014@squaredsong | lawork@pbs.org

“PBS Headquarters in Crystal City” by melanie.phung, used under CC BY

NPS

Produce Distribute

PBS PlusCOVE

Deposit

JPEG2000

Independent Producers

Project Description

1. Develop selection criteria for at-risk media

2. Create digitization workflow for

selected media

3. Policy update recommendations

Selection Criteria for Digitization

-Focus on institutional context

-Research & use existing tools

-Columbia University: AVDb

-University of Illinois: AvSAP

-Find, organize & refine data

PBS Selection Criteria

-Title held on multiple formats-Unique title (emphasis on orphans)-Copyright and descriptive metadata available-Title fits with current PBS/LC deposit policy-Title held elsewhere

Selection Criteria = Collaboration

Collection OverlapUMD National Pub-lic Broadcasting Ar-chives

PBS 1" and 2" MediaCollection

Your organization?

DocumentedCollection Overlap

http://www.shorpy.com/node/2608

Lauren Work

@squaredsong | lawork@pbs.org

Thank you!