Name: SESSION 706 - Keeping the Televised Historic Record: An Archive of Public Media in the Making
Start: 2015-08-22T10:00:00-0400
End: 2015-08-22T11:00:00-0400

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SESSION 706 - Keeping the Televised Historic Record: An Archive of Public Media in the Making

Archivists face the urgent task of migrating audiovisual media before a significant piece of the 20th century's historical record is lost to posterity. Once these materials have been digitized, how do archivists preserve them for the long term? How can we innovatively provide access and encourage use, given the rights complexities often associated with audiovisual materials? This session focuses on these questions through the lens of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

Speakers

Karen Cariani

Senior Director Media Library and Archives, WGBH Educational Foundation

I am passionate about making media archives accessible on-line. This goes hand in hand with digital preservation, metadata processes, and systems to manage both. I seek to use technology as much as possible to help archivists and librarians with their work.

Casey Davis

Associate Director, WGBH Educational Foundation

Casey E. Ovella Davis (she/they) is an archivist, oral historian and memory worker. Currently at GBH, America's preeminent public broadcasting producer and the source of fully one-third of PBS' primetime line-up, Davis is Associate Director of the GBH Archives and Project Manager... Read More →