Thanks Rob! Perhaps I should stress that they're not looking for a hosting platform. They're struggling with best practices for getting their mass of archival images onto the platform they have purchased, and make them findable. I have showed them Dublin Core/VRA standards but that is complicated for them.

Deborah Benrubi
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Technical Services Librarian
University of San Francisco
Gleeson Library|Geschke Center
2130 Fulton St.
San Francisco, CA 94117

ph. 415.422.5672
fax 415.422.2233
On 9/4/2012 3:32 PM, Rob Hoffman wrote:
As a professional archivist and the founder of a business partly
dedicated to the digital preservation of moving images (videos, home
movies), I can recommend to you and your administrators that you
investigate the use of Omeka.org as a place to host and display your
video collection. It is a project primarily sponsored by George Mason
University's Center for History and New Media. It provides an
easy-to-use, professionally designed interface that meets most
archival standards. For example, it allows you to embed metadata
according to Dublin Core standards in each of  your videos.

Take a  look at the web site here: http://omeka.org/ And even if you
decide that Omeka is not for you, it might be worth giving the folks
at GMU a call and asking your questions to them.

Rob Hoffman
Priceless Photo Preservation
Ann Arbor, MI

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relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, 
preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and 
related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective 
working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication 
between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and 
distributors.

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