Outlines an NLS pilot project with video sharing site YouTube and associated metadata issues. Part of the Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland (CIGS) seminar "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore": metadata issues and Web2.0 services.
The purpose of our presentation to day is to tell you about how we have recently moved away from the home comforts of our film and video catalogue and braved the uncharted territory that is the web! More specifically, how have we approached the description and management of digital moving image on YouTube? As we move to an increasingly digital & online environment, the tools and methods of describing content is changing, often it seems, outwith our control. Can we, and should we, control how the Scottish Screen Archive presents itself on such sites, or does this simply go against the whole philosophy of Web 2.0??