The media release makes it seem like the new content went live yesterday. However, a note on the homepage, points out that the new material along with a complete site makeover will be available on April 30th.
Great. So what's either available today or coming in about two weeks (what we're guessing is that it's going to happen at the end of the month).
WGBH Boston today launched the Vietnam Collection, http://openvault.wgbh.org/collection/vietnam,* an online video library drawn exclusively from WGBH’s 1983 landmark series, Vietnam: A Television History. The Vietnam Collection contains hours of rare archival footage and in-depth interviews with key decision makers and veterans on both sides of the Vietnam conflict. In a nod to history, the Vietnam Collection is being made available on the 35th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon.
Why Did it Take So Long to Get the Vietnam Content Online?
Format issues had made the collection largely inaccessible to the public since 1985 when the University of Massachusetts/Boston acquired the Vietnam: A Television History archive. All original interview material and stills, as well as a significant portion of the stock footage gathered for the Vietnam: A Television History, was transferred from film and will now be available.
Format issues. It's a topic (some would call it a problem) we're going to encounter more and more. A late 20th century example might be, "where can we get our large collection of Beta tapes converted into VHS." Now, 30 years later, video tape is all but gone and we're saving on memory sticks, DVDs, portable hard drives, etc. Also, music and video often found on DVD's are now moving to the cloud (like a lot of other content) for easy access from any web accessible computer including a smartphone.
The Open Vault from WGBH in Boston--
The Open Vault, a Media Archive and Library, is online right now and available to browse and search. Top-level categories (sub-categories on results pages) include the Arts; Business; Education; Humanities; Massachusetts; Science & Technology; and Social Science.
For example, here's a five minute interview with Dean Rusk about the Cuban Missile Crisis from the 1988 program "At the Brink." A text transcript of this interview (along with many others in the collection) are included.
On the same day the Vietnam Collection debuts, Open Vault will re-launch the site.
With a re-designed interface, enhanced interactive tools, and a new Fedora based repository, the website offers users new and innovative ways to explore, interact with, and comment on the media.
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