MOVING IMAGE COLLECTIONS

Slide 1:MOVING IMAGE COLLECTIONS

A Window to the World�s Moving Images Grace Agnew � March 2004

Slide 2:MIC is A window to the world�s moving images A portal intended to integrate moving images into the education mainstream A research and collaboration space for moving image archivists

Slide 3:Moving Image Collections

MIC is: A collaboration of the Library of Congress and the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the National Science Digital Library http://nsdl.org/

Slide 4:State of the field: Diversity

Collections Institutional types Available resources Missions Standards Users Balancing on a beach ball between standardization and customizationBalancing on a beach ball between standardization and customization

Slide 5:Basic Components

Union Catalog Archive Directory Education and Outreach Space Dynamic, contextual portals Cataloging utility (Phase II) Will explain each of these in turnWill explain each of these in turn

http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu/

Slide 7:Organization Directory

Contact information, home page URL, logo Collection and service descriptions Preservation activities Cataloging activities How to obtain materials Administrative information Certificate-based authentication/authorization

Slide 11:MIC Core Semantic Registry

Core Semantic Bibliographic Registry: Describes moving images in a consistent matter, from heterogeneous source data Supports core user needs: find, identify, select and obtain maps readily to reference schema: MARC, MPEG-7, DC, (IEEE LOM, MODS)

Slide 12:MIC Core Semantic Registry

Described in modified ISO 11173 registry format 46 possible data elements http://gondolin.rutgers.edu/MIC

Slide 13:Reference Schema Mapping

MARC MPEG-7 Dublin Core MODS (Future) IEEE LOM (Future) Goal: Rich Description in multiple Schema Will explain each of these in turnWill explain each of these in turn

Slide 17:Organization Directory

Intersects with the Union Catalog for: pre-selection for union catalog searches provide information about the organization, particularly obtaining resources, audience served, location, etc. OrgID Org Directory Union Catalog

Slide 21:PORTALS

Resource and organization descriptions specific to community PortalID in both Org Directory and Union Catalog retrieves portal-specific information PortalID Org Directory Union Catalog

Slide 28:Participate in MIC

Join the Directory Database Requirement: ownership/management of at least one moving image to be permanently preserved. Opportunities to participate in education, outreach and research collaborations Advertisement for your collections and services to a diverse international audience Interaction with experienced archivists preserving rich media in any format. http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu