After seven years of researching, testing, developing, analyzing, promoting and sharing, it is time to close out the Library of Congress-funded NDIIPP project Preserving Digital Public Television.
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This project was enormously successful. We produced a significant body of reports; published articles in key journals and other publication; and made popular presentations at dozens of conferences, symposia and special events in the U.S, Canada and abroad. Much to our surprise, this project emerged as a respected leader nationally and internationally in approaching technology issues relating to preserving digital video.
Most importantly, by promoting the importance of digital preservation to public broadcasting, we were instrumental in helping to create the American Archive, a new initiative at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is its first genuine investment in long-term preservation and access of U.S. public radio and television programming.
Since Preserving Digital Public Television began, broadcasting has shed its analog systems and moved completely into a digital universe. This project has been able to impress on the public television system the message that digital preservation is not an optional “add-on” cost, but a requirement for any future use of the materials. In this, the project has been instrumental in transforming an attitude of indifference to one that acknowledges the value of properly managing our collective archival holdings.
From Page Five of the Final Report:
Together, WNET, WGBH, PBS and NYU organized Preserving Digital Public Television (PDPTV) [http://wwwthirteen.org/ptvdigitalarchive/] as a collaboration to introduce digital preservation issues and practices to the public television system. The project was aimed specifically towards preserving born-digital program files and was not engaged in digitizing any
analog materials. Under the strong leadership of Ken Devine from WNET, and Dr. Howard Besser at NYU, activities formally began in September 2004 and were completed in March 2010.
The goals of the PDPTV project were to:
+ Design and build a prototype preservation repository for born-digital public television
content;
+ Develop a set of standards for metadata, file and encoding formats, and production workflow practices;
+ Recommend selection criteria for long-term retention;
+ Examine issues of long-term content accessibility and methods for sustaining digital
preservation of public television materials, including IP concerns.
+ Introduce the importance of digital preservation to the public broadcasting community.
Sources: National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIPP); WNET; WGBH, PBS; New York University
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