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Making the most of moving image metadata How the Scottish Screen Archive is describing, digitising and displaying film from the national collection

Making the Most of Moving Image Metadata

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Ann Cameron from the Scottish Screen Archive at the National Library of Scotland on how the SSA is describing, digitising and displaying film from the national collection.

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Making the most of moving image metadataHow the Scottish Screen Archive is describing, digitising and displaying

film from the national collection

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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

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Turning Detective - some cataloguing challenges

• Unique, fragile material & obsolete formats• Lack of (or too much!) supporting data• Title / Date / Place / Personality /

Organisation• Shotlisting• Completeness

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• Who?

• What?

• Why?

• Where?

• When?

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Digitising• Analogue to Digital transfer• Speed correction• Quality control• Filenaming• In-house or Outsource?

Keeping track of it all = more metadata

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Displaying

• Copyright

• Quality

• Ethics• Storage costs / IT infrastructure

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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

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Balancing act!Time vs Resources

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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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[email protected]

http://ssa.nls.uk