Staff from Temple Libraries and Computer Services are working as a team to find a way to provide streaming video of our archival WPVI news footage to researchers in our reading room. It’s a work in progress with potentially interesting uses of Ensemble and Drupal and a variety of technical and other challenges including how to use existing WPVI log books to provide access to the content.
2. Find a way to provide
limited access
streaming of digitized
WPVI news footage
held in our SCRC
3.
4. 16,600 low res Windows Media
Viewer files of raw and edited
footage and the corresponding
60 feet of log books (and pdfs
thereof) for news programming
dating from approximately 1977
to 2006. TOTAL: 20 GB
5.
6. WPVI authorizes TU to provide the content to
students, scholars, and the general public for
educational and research purposes, with the
requirement that we prevent downloading.
RESULT: access available only in the SCRC
reading room
7.
8. LIBRARIES:
Library Technology Services
Digital Library Initatives
Special Collections Research Center
COMPUTER SERVICES
9.
10. Options:
Open Video Digital Library Toolkit
DIVA
Ensemble
Other?
RESULT: Ensemble
11.
12. From WMV to MP4
Testing of process and quality
Processing of 150/night
Speed bump @ 13,000
13.
14. Exploration of options
SOLUTION: streaming from our
Isilon NSA playable only from
the Libraries website server
inserted into Drupal
15.
16.
17. METADATA – or lack thereof
Using the log books—not as easy
as you might think
18.
19. Rescan
OCR what we can
In-house crowd-sourcing (an
oxymoron?)
Other?
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21.
22. Margery N. Sly
Director
Special Collections Research Center
Temple University LIbraries
msly@temple.edu
library.temple.edu/collections/scrc