Building a Digital Preservation Community in Public Broadcasting: A Case Study of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting’s National Digital Stewardship Residencies

The rapid technological shift from tape-based to entirely digital technologies has had a dramatic impact on public media institutions in the US. Public media stations are now creating hundreds of hours of complex born-digital video and audio files every day, which require active management in order...

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Published inIASA journal no. 47
Main Authors Weaver, Andrew, Colloton, Eddy, McManus, Kate, Chau, Selena, Ramirez-Lopez, Lorena, Lott, Adam, Graves, Tressa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Auckland Park International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives 01.01.2017
Subjects
Access to information
Archives & records
Broadcasting
Case studies
Digital preservation
Digital video
Public television
United States > US
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Summary:The rapid technological shift from tape-based to entirely digital technologies has had a dramatic impact on public media institutions in the US. Public media stations are now creating hundreds of hours of complex born-digital video and audio files every day, which require active management in order to remain usable and accessible into the future. However, lacking the resources of commercial production environments, most of these organizations do not have a formal archive or funding to maintain professional archivists on staff. As a result, ensuring that public media environments have access to information and expertise about best practices in digital preservation is an ongoing challenge. Over the course of the panel session, the residents will discuss their projects and the commonalities of their experiences handling born-digital media across a variety of public media production environment.
ISSN:1021-562X