PTV Digital Archive

“Intellectual Property and Copyright Issues Relating to the Preservation and Future Accessibility of Digital Public Television Programs,” is now available.  It was written and edited by Kathleen Maguire (NYU), Nan Rubin (WNET), and Kara Van Malssen (NYU) with the PDPTV Copyright Working Group.
This report explores the particular set of copyright and intellectual property (IP) issues that govern – [...]

After 5 years of work, we are very pleased to publish our Repository Design Report, which describes the architecture and design of the PDPTV model preservation repository!
Developed by the Digital Library Technology Services team at New York University, the repository provided an important testbed and prototype for digital preservation of complex video files and their [...]

Strategies for Sustainable Preservation of Born Digital Public Television is a thorough investigation into the technical, operational, and economic requirements for sustainble preservation of file-based television production. It includes a case study of the costs associated with the PDPTV prototype preservation repository at New York University.
This comprensive study was researched, written and edited by Yvonne [...]

First of all, Happy New Year from the PDPTV gang! 
There has been a lot of activity around archives and public broadcasting over the past few months, that we thought we’d share with you.

1. In November, the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) held their annual conference in downtown St. Louis, Missouri.  Not only is the [...]

40th Annual Conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA)
20-25 September 2009 in Athens, Greece
by Kara Van Malssen
the author (left) and Karen Cariani (WGBH Media Library and Archives) in front of our poster on sustainability issues for public broadcasting preservation
From 20-25 September 2009, the 40th annual conference of the International Association of Sound [...]