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

• Published in: IASA journal no. 47
• Main Authors: Weaver, Andrew, Colloton, Eddy, McManus, Kate, Chau, Selena, Ramirez-Lopez, Lorena, Lott, Adam, Graves, Tressa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...