MOVING IMAGE COLLECTIONSMOVING IMAGE COLLECTIONS

A Window to the World’s Moving Images

Grace Agnew – March 2004

MIC is A window to the world’s moving

images A portal intended to integrate

moving images into the education mainstream

A research and collaboration space for moving image archivists

Moving Image Collections

MIC is: A collaboration of the Library of Congress and

the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA)

Funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the National Science Digital Library

http://nsdl.org/

State of the field: Diversity

Collections Institutional types Available resources Missions Standards Users

Basic Components

Union Catalog

Archive Directory

Education and Outreach Space

Dynamic, contextual portals

Cataloging utility (Phase II)

Union Catalog

Archive Directory

Education and Outreach Space

Dynamic, contextual portals

Cataloging utility (Phase II)

http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu/

Organization Directory

Contact information, home page URL, logo Collection and service descriptions Preservation activities Cataloging activities How to obtain materials Administrative information Certificate-based

authentication/authorization

MIC Core Semantic Registry

Core Semantic Bibliographic Registry: Describes moving images in a consistent matter, from heterogeneous source data

Supports core user needs: find, identify, select and obtain

maps readily to reference schema: MARC, MPEG-7, DC, (IEEE LOM, MODS)

MIC Core Semantic Registry

Described in modified Described in modified ISO 11173 registry formatISO 11173 registry format

46 possible data elements46 possible data elements

http://gondolin.rutgers.edu/MIC

Reference Schema Mapping

MARC

MPEG-7

Dublin Core

MODS (Future)

IEEE LOM (Future)

MARC

MPEG-7

Dublin Core

MODS (Future)

IEEE LOM (Future)

Goal: Rich Description in multiple SchemaGoal: Rich Description in multiple Schema

Organization Directory

Intersects with the Union Catalog for:Intersects with the Union Catalog for:

pre-selection for union catalog searches provide information about the

organization, particularly obtaining resources, audience served, location, etc.

OrgID

Org Org DirectoryDirectory

Union Union CatalogCatalog

PORTALS

Resource and organization descriptions and organization descriptions specific to communityspecific to community

PortalID in both Org Directory and PortalID in both Org Directory and Union Catalog retrieves portal-specific Union Catalog retrieves portal-specific informationinformation

PortalID

Org Org DirectoryDirectory

Union Union CatalogCatalog

Education & Outreach: A critical concern

Participate in MIC

Join the Directory Database Requirement: ownership/management of at

least one moving image to be permanently preserved.

Opportunities to participate in education, outreach and research collaborations

Advertisement for your collections and services to a diverse international audience

Interaction with experienced archivists preserving rich media in any format.

http://mic.imtc.gatech.eduhttp://mic.imtc.gatech.edu

Visit MIC: http://mic.imtc.gatech.eduVisit MIC: http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu

Project website: http://gondolin.rutgers.edu/MICProject website: http://gondolin.rutgers.edu/MIC

Developers: Rutgers University LibrariesDevelopers: Rutgers University Libraries

Georgia Tech Interactive Media Technology Georgia Tech Interactive Media Technology Center Center

University of Washington Communications & University of Washington Communications & Computing (CAC) Computing (CAC)