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Papers and Presentations
21 November 2002
Media Asset Retrieval Systems
Efthimis Efthimiadis, Alison White, Paul E. Burrows
At the 2002 annual conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, members of the Working Group for the Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary Project presented background information about Public Broadcasting's interests in Media Asset Retrieval Systems and updates on the MARS Project as well as the latest news from the Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary Workgroup's activities.
Media Asset Retrieval Systems in Public Broadcasting
Alison White, CPB
MARS: Work Domain Analysis of Public Broadcasting
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis & Jens-Erik Mai, University of Washington
Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary Project: Update
Paul E. Burrows, KUED Media Solutions, University of Utah
06 November 2002
DAM Evangelists: The Gospel of Digital Asset Management
Alison White, David MacCarn, Grace Agnew
At the 2002 Iowa DTV Symposium, the session description promised,You’ll shout 'Hallelujah' when you become enlightened about the new world of Digital Asset Management. CPB’s media maven Alison White will spread the word(s) from the Metadata Dictionary Project. (Metadata is all the information about your valuable digital media assets and you’ll find out, you have more than you thought.) David MacCarn will deliver the gospel according to a new DAM model recently developed at WGBH in Boston. And Grace Agnew, Library of Congress & Association of Moving Image Archivists, will baptize you in the deep digital waters of organizing & storing your valuable media assets.
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Digital Asset Management and the Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary Project
Alison White, CPB
MIC: Moving Image Collections
Grace Agnew, Rutgers University
DAM Reference Architecture
David MacCarn, WGBH Educational Foundation
24 June 2002
I Never Metadata I Didn't Like: The Promise of Digital Information Flow
Alison White, Marilyn Pierce, Tim Olson, James Steinbach, Marcia Brooks
At the PBS Annual meeting for 2002, members of the Working Group for the Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary Project raised awareness of the project and advised the multi-disciplinary audience as to why the project's work is important to all.
28-31 May 2002
Digital Asset Management: What You Need to Know Now
Alison White, Marcia Brooks, Dennis Haarsager, Diane Kostecke, Jim Kutzner
Presented at the 2002 PBMA Conference. Moderated by Alison White with panelists Marcia Brooks, Dennis Haarsager, Diane Kostecke and Jim Kutzner (PBS).
13 May 2002 (first publication)
The Case for Shared Metadata Standards
Mary Jane McKinven
Building on Steven Vedro's original article "Why Metadata Matters," this piece (originally published in Current), poses a series of "Frequently Asked Questions" that public broadcasters are likely to ask themselves about the importance of metadata and Digital Asset Management (DAM) and their implications for local station operations.
22 December 2001
Candidate Indexing Project
CPB’s Television Future Fund provided support for Wisconsin Public Television’s “Candidate Indexing Project” in 2001. The project was designed to explore the feasibility of creating a database of digitized video, and then delivering searchable video to the public using a web interface. The video used was clips provided by candidates for public office in Wisconsin. This final report explores the trials and triumphs of the project, and provides some insight for pubcasters about what to do and what NOT to do in the world of Asset Management.
13 November 2001
Asset Management Caucus Briefing Book
On November 13, 2001, approximately 40 pubcasters gathered in Chicago for an "Asset Management Caucus." The group shared their Asset Management activities and know-how, and the AMC Briefing Book contains their useful reports from the field. During the meeting, the group worked together to develop a shared understanding of the Asset Management issues and obstacles facing public broadcasters, and a sense of what our priorities should be. See the Facilitator's Memo.
17 October 2001
Covering Our Assets
Alison White
During the 2001 Iowa DTV Symposium "Covering Our Assets" session, CPB's Alison White emphasized the critical importance of Asset Management in tomorrow's digital content production, exchange and delivery.
11 September 2001 (first presentation)
CAMS: Implementing a Content Asset Management System at the University
of Utah
Paul E. Burrows
Paul Burrows has created an on-going presentation on the progress of implementing a cross-departmental Media Asset Management and Content Management system at the University of Utah (CAMS). The most recent updates reporting the activities of KUED Media Solutions, KUED-TV and the Utah Education Network are included in the web site. It reviews the perceived needs for digital content management, offers some reality checks, and folds in related informational resources on Digital Content Management systems.To date, the CAMS Collections site has been used in various slices at the following:
- University of Wisconsin/Corporation for Public Broadcasting Evolving the Links conference, September 10&11, 2001
- National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) meeting in January of 2002, Las Vegas, Nevada.
- University of Wisconsin/Corporation for Public Broadcasting Evolving the Links conference, March 25&26, 2002
11 September 2001
Asset Management and PTV's Large Scale Technology Projects
John Tollefson
PBS' John Tollefson's presentation for the "Evolving the Links" meeting in Madison, Wisconsin (September 11, 2001) explains in detail why Asset Management is tied to public television's large-scale technology projects.
10 September 2001
Digital Asset Management Overview
Byron Knight
For the "Evolving the Links" meeting at the University of Wisconsin in Madison (September 10 & 11, 2001), Byron Knight, Director of Broadcasting & Media Innovations, University of Wisconsin Extension, welcomed the attendees and introduced the concepts behind Digital Asset Management. His presentation explored Metadata, Delivery on Demand, Digital Asset Management Systems, Universal Access, and Portals.
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10 September 2001 (first publication)
Why Metadata Matters
Steven Vedro
Steven Vedro's article "Why Metadata Matters," originally published in Current, surveys metadata research and standards-making and explains why we must all understand this (formerly) esoteric field.
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