PTV Digital Archive

Everything Old Can Be New Again, Nan Rubin’s article in Current, the newspaper about public TV and radio, offers an overview of PBS archives, plans for the future, and advice for station managers concerned about preservation and access. Here’s an excerpt:
It’s time to get over our wasteful habit of letting our programs vanish forever. We’ve [...]

Thirteen/WNET New York invites you to check out the finding aid for our newly remastered landmark public affairs series, The 51st State.
http://www.thirteen.org/the51ststate/

On the air from 1972-1976, The 51st State began as a nightly news program with a mission to present in-depth and thoughtful reporting of regional issues.  During this period, New York City was struggling [...]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) today announced the appointment of David Liroff as Senior Vice President, System Development and Media Strategy. Liroff comes to CPB from WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts where he has held the position of Vice President and Chief Technology Officer since 1995. At CPB, he will [...]

As part of the NDIIPP Grant, PBS is pleased to announce the completion of a comprehensive inventory of its media. Approximately 157,000 items have been inventoried since the inventory began in 2006. A number of tapes that had been previously thought missing, including episodes of Austin City Limits, Mystery! and Firing Line were [...]

February 28 + March 1, 2007
PBCore Training: 2nd Live Sessions Scheduled
Please join us for the second in a series of four live Webinars on using PBCore. This session is “PBCore 102: The PBCore Elements.”
As many are aware, a metadata dictionary used to describe the intellectual content, rights, and formats of public broadcasting media has been [...]

The January NDIIPP partners meeting was at UC San Diego, hosted in part by the San Diego Super Computer Center (SDSC). LC has been hosting these meetings twice a year now for all the NDIIPP projects plus fellow travellers, and these gatherings have been less about us talking about our projects and more about LC informing us [...]

For those who want to know more about the progress with the deveopment of PBCore:
As many of you are aware, a metadata dictionary used to describe the intellectual content, rights, and formats of public broadcasting media has been developed and made available for your use.
It is called PBCore, or Public Broadcasting Core of Metadata Descriptions [...]

As we fast approach the deadline for the FCC-mandated transition to replace analog television broadcasting with digital service, I thought a little refresher from 10 years ago might be useful —  
Industries Agree on U.S. Standards for TV of the Future
?[From the  New York Times 11/26/1996, AUTHOR: Mark Landler] ??”Ending years of industry squabbling, the broadcasting, [...]

The Association of Moving Image Archivists met in Anchorage earlier this month, and a growing awareness of the importance of preserving television, as well as video on the Internet, was a major point of discussion among many attendees.
One of the more entertaining sessions was a special evening, curated by Jeff Martin, marking the the 50th anniversary of the [...]

Video from all the sessions of the Culture, Commerce and Public Media conference held in June by WNET and Intelligent Television are available for viewing. Highlights include presentations by PBS President Paula Kerger; WNET CTO Ken Devine; PTV Project Director Nan Rubin; Orlando Bagwell of the Ford Foundation, and Mary Rasenberger of the Library [...]