Preserving Digital Public Television: Not Just an Archive, but a New Attitude to Preserve Public Broadcasting
Rubin, Nan
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Title
Preserving Digital Public Television: Not Just an Archive, but a New Attitude to Preserve Public Broadcasting
Author(s)
Rubin, Nan
Issue Date
2009
Keyword(s)
Digital preservation
National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
Public broadcasting
Abstract
Television production has shifted rapidly from an analog process to
one where virtually all programs are created and finalized as digital
files. Such productions in public television are at great risk of being
lost, because practices for long-term preservation of digital video are
just now emerging, and because there is no mandate for preservation
within the public broadcasting system. NDIIPP funded Preserving
Digital Public Television, a partnership between WNET-TV in New
York, WGBH-TV in Boston, PBS and New York University, to build a
model preservation repository for digital video files and to examine
the broader issues related to operating such a repository. In addition
to designing the repository itself, the project became a lead advocate
for adopting technical and metadata standards across the television
field. The project also successfully challenged the public television
system to recognize that preservation is necessary to keep digital
productions alive. This resulted in public broadcasting allocating
money for the first time to launch an initiative with a goal of properly
managing its collective archival holdings.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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