Then I would suggest a quick email or phone call to the Omeka folks. First of all, they probably don't care that you're going with another hosting platform. Secondly, they probably deal with these questions all the time and would be happy to show what you need to tell your higher-ups – or direct you to someone who can,
Hope this helps, Rob On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Deborah Benrubi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > *************** > 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 > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues > 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. > > > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues > 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. > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues 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.
