Media Matters' automated system to preserve and digitize priceless collection
The University of Georgia’s Peabody Archives has signed with Media Matters to use their System for the Automated Migration of Media Archives, or SAMMA, to migrate over 2,000 recordings submitted by local television stations around the United States for consideration in the annual Peabody Awards competition between 1973 and 1990. The project, funded by the National Park Service’s “Save America’s Treasures
The University of Georgia’s Peabody Archives has signed with Media Matters to use their System for the Automated Migration of Media Archives, or SAMMA, to migrate over 2,000 recordings submitted by local television stations around the United States for consideration in the annual Peabody Awards competition between 1973 and 1990. The project, funded by the National Park Service’s “Save America’s Treasures
Note that this is made possible by a grant from the National Park Service. Quoth Clay Shirky: "The FCC is the EPA of the twenty-first century ..." -- fh
Originally posted on D A V A<br>Digital Audiovisual Archiving by Rhizome
