American Archive of Public Broadcasting Launches New Website/Database, Streaming Video Coming This Fall

Congrats to all of the people involved in this project. We’ve been following its development since it was first announced. Background at the bottom of this post.
From the Library of Congress:

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a collaboration between the Library of Congress, WGBH Boston and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, launched a new website at americanarchive.org today, providing the public with access to a collection of American public radio and television content dating back to the 1950s.
These audio and video materials, created by more than 120 public broadcasting organizations across the country, have now been digitized and preserved, and will be a resource for scholars, researchers, educators, filmmakers and the general public to delve into the rich history of public broadcasting across America.
[Our emphasis] The website will initially provide access to 2.5 million inventory records created during the American Archive Content Inventory Project.
The records will provide information about which public media video and audio materials have been digitized and preserved in the AAPB, indicate which video and audio files are available for research on location at WGBH and the Library of Congress, and highlight the participating stations. Contributing stations’ histories, information about significant productions and resources for participating organizations will be available online.
The collection includes interviews and performances by local and national luminaries from a broad variety of professions and cultural genres. Just a few examples of the items in the collection include: Iowa Public Television’s interview with Olympic runner Jesse Owens, recorded in 1979, the last year of his life; KUSC’s (Los Angeles) broadcast of commentary by George Lucas on the original three Star Wars movies; Twin Cities Public Television’s recording of a 1960 interview with presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Minnesota Sen. Hubert Humphrey; and WGBH’s 1967 interviews with then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan.
Between April and October, WGBH and the Library of Congress will continue development of the AAPB website.
[Our emphasis]  By October, video and audio content will be accessible for the public to stream on the website’s Online Reading Room.
Curated collections of video and audio by scholars and the AAPB staff will focus on topics of historical significance.

Limit/Focus Your Search
Search results can be focused using one or more of the following facets:

Selection of Television Archive Projects (with Video Streamable Online)

• C-SPAN Video Library

• WGBH Open Vault

• Boston TV News Digital Archive

• Louisiana Digital Media Archive

• University of North Texas Libraries Placing Digitized News Film (1950-1979) From NBC 5/ KXAS-TV (Dallas-Fort Worth) on Portal to Texas History

• University of Virginia Library Releases Online Archive of Historical TV News Footage

Background

• Learn More About The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (Conference Presentation) (May 24, 2014)

• Update and Slide Presentation from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (December 15, 2013)

• Library of Congress Selected as New Home of American Archive of Public Broadcasting (November 14, 2013)

See Also: Direct to American Archive of Public Broadcasting Blog
See Also: Learn About PBCore (Public Television Metadata Dictionary)

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