IIPC-IFLA News Media Section Workshop: Archiving Audiovisual News Media Content

The IFLA News Media and International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) are teaming up again to host a series of workshops focusing on archiving news media. As most news is now published online, there is a growing interest to better understand the current best practices in web archiving. The main goal of our workshops is to examine and compare how organizations of varying sizes tackle this topic and to learn from their collective experiences. Through presentations and informal discussions, we will showcase diverse organizational approaches to archiving news media, including audiovisual content and social media, highlight key challenges, and explore innovative solutions. 

Our initial event on December 4 featured a short introduction to the work of IIPC and IFLA News Media Section as well as three use cases from the National Library of France, National and University Library of Iceland and Library of Congress. The following workshop showcased approaches to browser-based crawling of news behind paywalls with presentations from the national libraries of Finland, Luxembourg, Austria and the Royal Danish Library. In this edition of our workshop, we will focus on archiving audiovisual content related to news.

AGENDA

10:00-10:05: Introduction to IFLA News Media section & IIPC; introduction to this workshop

10:05-10:25: Professor Luisa Ordoñez (Caracol Televisión and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana): Looking for the Present when it’s already in the Past: Digital workflows, metadata management and the rush of everyday in archiving news from Colombia

10:25-10:45: Heather Linville (Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center) & Rachel Curtis (American Archive of Public Broadcasting): Preserving Public Media at the Library of Congress

10:45-10:58: Q&A with all speakers

10:58-11:00: Wrap-up

The workshop will be moderated by Kopana Terry (Historic Newspapers Curator) of the University of Kentucky.

Looking for the Present when it’s already in the Past: Digital workflows, metadata management and the rush of everyday in archiving news from Colombia

When working in a Broadcasting Company, the challenge of archiving news resides in the immediacy and the rush of providing access while simultaneously selecting current information to preserve history. Having a robust TI infrastructure is not the only solution: designing workflows, metadata schemas and working with producers to assure the chain of custody can be more difficult than it seems.

In this talk, Professor Luisa Ordoñez will describe the challenges of preserving news in an environment where immediacy is the priority. How do we manage to ingest and catalogue more than 3000 of news footage every year and make it available for our users? Is this rush compatible with digital preservation?

This presentation will focus on:

• Context and scope of Caracol’s Audiovisual Archive, one of the biggest in Colombia
• Main challenges: Planning, data governance and interaction with the users
• Managing a Media asset management (MAM) system for the future
• Metadata schemas
• Access and reuse

Preserving Public Media at the Library of Congress

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaboration between the U.S. Library of Congress and GBH in Boston, Massachusetts. The goal of this project is to preserve and make accessible the rich history of America’s public media programming. The Library also manages a public broadcasting web archive to preserve the web pages of the participating public media stations. Heather Linville will talk briefly about the Library’s National Audio Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC) and Rachel Curtis will talk about the Library’s role as the preservation arm of the AAPB and the public broadcasting web archive.

Heather Linville is the head of the Moving Image Section at the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC) in Culpeper, Virginia. She oversees the collection, preservation, and protection of over 2 million items which represent the nation’s moving image heritage. Heather has been with the Library since 2018 and was previously the head of the NAVCC Film Preservation Laboratory.

Rachel Curtis is a Digital Project Specialist at the Library of Congress and serves as the Project Coordinator for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB). In this capacity, she manages the ingest of preservation files and associated metadata into the Library’s archive, works with GBH on policy and strategy, and coordinates Library staff on AAPB activities. She has been with the Library since 2015.