Alpha Sites
Each alpha implementer site provides MIC with metadata records for all of its moving image materials or a focused subset of them, and submits an entry to the MIC Archive Directory.
Alpha implementer sites are actively involved in the testing, evaluation, and revision of MIC core registry elements, the metadata display and export formats and all initial MIC functionalities.
Alpha implementer sites represent a wide range of moving image archives with materials in film, video and digital formats. Taken together, the metadata schema used by the alpha sites to describe their materials represent a cross section of in-house and standard metadata schema currently in use in the archival moving image community.
Small and large collections representing different genres and target audiences were selected with a heavy initial focus on the sciences, which are underrepresented on the World Wide Web.
Alpha Sites (Science)
National Geographic Television
Oregon Health & Science University
Alpha Sites (Humanities)
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection (University of Georgia Libraries)
Prelinger Collection at the Internet Archive
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
In the fall of 2004, we began registering additional archives, beyond the original alpha implementers, to participate in the MIC Union Catalog using the new mapping utility. Alpha test sites for the mapping utility include:
Academic Film Archive of North America
Prelinger Collection at the Internet Archive
Academy Film Archive, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences