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

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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 LIbrariesmsly@temple.edulibrary.temple.edu/collections/scrc

Onwards