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Historical Building A Digital Library Of Television News
Breeding, Marshall (Date Created: Jun 2003) (United States of America)
This article is a brief overview of the processes involved in establishing a digital archive of television news videotapes at the Vanderbilt Television News Archives in the USA. The author examines some technical apects of converting and preserving the videotape into a digital format; explains the different phases of the project, such as the creation of metadata and the establishment of the digitisation process; and provides an overview of the costs and challenges facing the project.
http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=10346
Also available in PDF version, Computers in Libraries, June 2003, Vol 23, Issue 6, ISSN 1041-7915 and by subscription online at www.ebscohost.com/
New Approaches to Television Archiving
Ubois, Jeff In: First Monday (Date Created: Mar 2005)
The current approach to broadcast archiving is fragmented due to differing standards, legal considerations and costs. This has resulted in only a small percentage of output bring preserved. The development of digital broadcasting has also introduced new archiving issues. This article discusses the types of institutions involved in television archiving, some technical and legal issues and suggestions for collaboration in order to achieve a more comprehensive approach to archiving this medium.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/ubois/index.html
Providing Access to European Television Heritage
Oomen, Johan; Tzouvaras, Vassilis In: Ariadne (Date Created: Oct 2007)
This article describes the background and development of the Video Active Portal which will provide access to television heritage material from European archives.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue53/ooman-tzouvaras/

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Projects and Case Studies

Preserving Digital Public Television
PVTDigitalArchive (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Funded by the Library of Congress, this project aims to develop an archive for the long term preservation of born digital video. It includes developing a repository, developing best practice guidelines, testing and ingesting material into the archive. The site has links to documents providing information on best practices surveys, focus group reports, appraisal criteria and metadata.
http://www.ptvdigitalarchive.org/

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