Events

Gain a solid grasp of why and how PBCore is useful for handling analog
and digital audiovisual objects.

PRESENTERS
Jack Brighton, New Media & Innovation, Illinois Public Media at WILL
jack.brighton@gmail.com
Director of New Media and Innovation at WILL Public Media, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Guest lecturer in online journalism at the Department of Journalism at the University of Illinois, and presents workshops on Internet media, media preservation, and web development at academic and media industry conferences. Chairs the AMIA News, Documentary, and Television Interest Group and  is co-founder of the AMIA Open Source Committee.

Brian Graney, Media Cataloger, Northeast Historic Film
brian@oldfilm.org
At Northeast Historic Film, conducts project cataloging and supports web and database development for the Council on Library and Information Resources-funded project, Moving Images 1938-1940: Amateur Filmmakers Record the New York World’s Fair and Its Period.  Brian is a graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation and holds an MLS from University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Yvonne Ng, Archivist, WITNESS
yvonne@witness.org
Supports all activities of the WITNESS Media Archive and blogs frequently about issues facing human rights archivists. Worked with audiovisual collections at the New York Public Library, NYU Libraries, and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. Research fellow on the Preserving Digital Public Television project of the U.S. National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University, and BA in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto.

Dave Rice,  Archivist with the City University of New York  
dericed@mac.com
Consults with Audiovisual Preservation Solutions on preservation topics, focusing on open source applications, digital video codecs and formats, asset and metadata management, high efficiency reformatting, quality control, cataloging, collection management, and metadata technology for archival applications. David has worked as the Digital Media Archivist at Thirteen/WNET and was the first archivist for the daily news production Democracy Now. Graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation.

Kara Van Malssen, Senior Consultant, Audiovisual Preservation Solutions
kvanmalssen@gmail.com
Digital asset management, metadata modeling and standards implementation, digital repository development, and disaster preparedness. Consultancies include Museum of Modern Art, NPR, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Trainer with ICCROM’s Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections (SOIMA) initiative (Brazil and India), and NYU’s Audiovisual Preservation Exchange program, in Ghana. Co-chair of AMIA International Outreach Committee. Kara holds an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University.

FOR YOU? IF YOU ARE
·       An intermediate or more advanced cataloger familiar with one
or more structural metadata standards and  with the concepts of
content standards and controlled vocabularies
·       Interested in using PBCore
·       Comfortable with XML coding

PBCORE BACKGROUND
PBCore is a metadata standard for audiovisual media, created for the
description of analog and digital objects to support exchange of
information. This workshop is an all-day follow-up to the PBCore 2.0
sessions at the AMIA 2010 Philadelphia conference. We will include
demonstrations of PBCore’s value in creating intellectual content,
rights, and technical metadata and detailed case studies. Among other
PBCore advantages is that its use is free to all and there are
database tools already in use including a variety of open source
software applications.

PBCore development (launched in 2005) was funded by the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting based on Dublin Core, for use with audiovisual
media and with the input of community members in a range of
institutions, including and well beyond broadcast. Version 2.0 was
released in early 2011 and the presenters will present the schema and
its uses in detail, from mandatory elements through newly added
attributes that allow users to support semantic web applications.
PBCore can either include or reference data from other schemas. It is
being used by large and small initiatives to support exchange of
metadata, from the American Archive Content Inventory Project to
Northeast Historic Film’s Council on Library and Information Resources
supported DACS/PBCore hidden collections projects.

AMIA Conference is November 15-19  http://www.amiaconference.com/2011/program.htm

WORKSHOP MADE POSSIBLE BY
The Association of Moving Image Archivists, The Harry Ransom Center at
The University of Texas at Austin, AMIA Cataloging and Metadata
Committee, and Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives:
Building a New Research Environment, a program of the Council on
Library and Information Resources funded by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation with a grant to Northeast Historic Film for Moving Images
1938-1940: Amateur Filmmakers Record the New York World’s Fair and Its
Period, www.fairfilm.org