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TITLE: Preserving Digital Public Television
SPEAKER: Nan Rubin
EVENT DATE: 03/08/2006
RUNNING TIME: 76 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Project director Nan Rubin discussed the "Preserving Digital Public Television" project, which is funded with a dollar-for-dollar matching award from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.
The "Preserving Digital Public Television" project is exploring the selection and appraisal of programs for preservation, a variety of technical issues and the roles and responsibilities for long-term preservation within the public television community. Among other technical topics, the project is examining appropriate formatting for video preservation. One of the key contributions from New York University, which is also part of the project, is the development of a model digital repository to demonstrate several of the project's technical findings.
Rubin's talk took note of areas of common interest with the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS). For many years, MBRS has worked with PBS to provide a permanent archive for public television content, thus far in analog form. A second area of common interest concerns MBRS planning related to the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center being established in Culpeper, Va., a facility that will carry out extensive digital activities.
Speaker Biography: Nan Rubin is a technology project planner for public television station WNET ("Thirteen"), New York, the lead partner in the project. The other participating organizations are the television station WGBH, Boston; the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Alexandria, Va.; and New York University. WNET and WGBH produce more than 60 percent of the program content aired on public television. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/project.html#presentations