streaming wpvi news footage
DESCRIPTION
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.TRANSCRIPT
Streaming WPVI News Footage
A work in progress
The Challenge
Find a way to provide limited access streaming of digitized WPVI news footage held in our SCRC
Philadelphia icons
The Stuff
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
The Agreement 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
City Council
The TU TEAM
LIBRARIES: Library Technology Services Digital Library Initatives Special Collections Research Center
COMPUTER SERVICES
Fires
RESEARCH
Options: Open Video Digital Library Toolkit DIVA Ensemble Other?
RESULT: Ensemble
Weather
CONVERSION
From WMV to MP4Testing of process and quality
Processing of 150/nightSpeed bump @ 13,000
Events
STREAMING
Exploration of options
SOLUTION: streaming from our Isilon NSA playable only from the Libraries website server inserted into Drupal
Ensemble in Drupal
ACCESS
METADATA – or lack thereof
Using the log books—not as easy as you might think
Log books
OPTIONS
RescanOCR what we canIn-house crowd-sourcing (an oxymoron?)
Other?
Stay tuned
VISIT
Contact
Margery N. SlyDirector Special Collections Research CenterTemple University [email protected]/collections/scrc
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