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MOVING IMAGE COLLECTIONS. A Window to the World’s Moving Images. Grace Agnew – March 2004. 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.
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MOVING IMAGE COLLECTIONS A Window to the World’s Moving Images Grace Agnew – March 2004
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
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/
State of the field: Diversity • Collections • Institutional types • Available resources • Missions • Standards • Users
Basic Components • Union Catalog • Archive Directory • Education and Outreach Space • Dynamic, contextual portals • Cataloging utility (Phase II)
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
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)
MIC Core Semantic Registry Described in modified ISO 11173 registry format 46 possible data elements http://gondolin.rutgers.edu/MIC
Reference Schema Mapping Goal: Rich Description in multiple Schema • MARC • MPEG-7 • Dublin Core • MODS (Future) • IEEE LOM (Future)
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. Union Catalog Org Directory OrgID
PORTALS • Resource and organization descriptions specific to community • PortalID in both Org Directory and Union Catalog retrieves portal-specific information Union Catalog Org Directory PortalID
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
Visit MIC: http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu Project website: http://gondolin.rutgers.edu/MIC Developers: Rutgers University Libraries Georgia Tech Interactive Media Technology Center University of Washington Communications & Computing (CAC)