Educational Broadcasting Corporation, Thirteen/WNET New York

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) is taking the next step toward refining the digital workflow for its television productions. Creating a set of Media Asset Management (MAM)-based tools will allow multiple groups of users to package digital video content easily for distribution over multiple nonbroadcast channels. EBC's ongoing preliminary efforts to create a fully digital workflow put the organization in a position to take the logical next steps toward integrating a number of related, but often uncoordinated, trends in digital preservation and archiving across the public media landscape. Digital audiovisual material is often harder to store, access, and preserve than analogue video tape and film. This project will make EBC digital content more widely available for cross-platform use, lead the way for public broadcast organizations to adopt system-wide technical standards and metadata schema, and support 21st century skills by making important broadcast material available for classroom use. This project will support and inform national efforts in the area of preserving digital moving images.