Staff from Temple Libraries and Computer Services are working as a team to find a way to provide streaming video of our archival WPVI news footage to researchers in our reading room. It’s a work in progress with potentially interesting uses of Ensemble and Drupal and a variety of technical and other challenges including how to use existing WPVI log books to provide access to the content.

1. A work in progress

2. Find a way to provide
limited access
streaming of digitized
WPVI news footage
held in our SCRC

4.  16,600 low res Windows Media
Viewer files of raw and edited
footage and the corresponding
60 feet of log books (and pdfs
thereof) for news programming
dating from approximately 1977
to 2006. TOTAL: 20 GB

6.  WPVI authorizes TU to provide the content to
students, scholars, and the general public for
educational and research purposes, with the
requirement that we prevent downloading.
 RESULT: access available only in the SCRC
reading room

8. LIBRARIES:
 Library Technology Services
 Digital Library Initatives
 Special Collections Research Center
COMPUTER SERVICES

10. Options:
 Open Video Digital Library Toolkit
 DIVA
 Ensemble
 Other?
 RESULT: Ensemble

12.  From WMV to MP4
 Testing of process and quality
 Processing of 150/night
 Speed bump @ 13,000

14.  Exploration of options
 SOLUTION: streaming from our
Isilon NSA playable only from
the Libraries website server
inserted into Drupal

17.  METADATA – or lack thereof
 Using the log books—not as easy
as you might think

19.  Rescan
 OCR what we can
 In-house crowd-sourcing (an
oxymoron?)
 Other?

22. Margery N. Sly
Director
Special Collections Research Center
Temple University LIbraries
msly@temple.edu
library.temple.edu/collections/scrc