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2005 LITA National Forum to feature Moving Image Collections preconference
The 2005 LITA National Forum will be held September 29 - October 2,
2005, at the San Jose (CA) Marriott hotel. "Moving Image
COllections" (MIC) will be presented as a preconference to the Forum,
beginning the afternoon of September 29 and concluding the morning of September
30. Please see below for a description of the program. Registration
for the preconference is $175 for LITA members, $210 for non members.
Please see
for access to online and print registration options. You need not
attend the Forum to register for the MIC preconference.
Moving Image Collections
Grace Agnew, AUL for Digital Library Systems, Rutgers, the
Jane Johnson, MIC Project Manager, Library of Congress
An overview with technical information about Moving Image Collections
(MIC: http://mic.loc.gov), a collaboration of the Library of Congress and the
Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). MIC integrates a union
catalog, archive directory, and informational resources in a portal structure
delivering customized information on archival moving images, their
preservation, and the images themselves to a number of diverse constituencies.
Originally designed to address the crisis in film preservation, MIC now
serves a clientele beyond archivists and is poised to explore the leading edge
of non-textual indexing, digital rights management, and educational use, all
the while continuing to meet the daily needs of archivists by supporting
collaborative preservation, access, digitization, education, and metadata
initiatives.
We are committed to the use of standards-based interoperability
protocols to provide an integrated and easy to use portal for digital
educational resources. MIC's union catalog incorporates both
open-source Z39.50 capabilities and support for the Open Archives
Initiative. MIC's extensible format-independent metadata design
accommodates searching, export and display in multiple schemas, including
MARC21, Dublin Core, MPEG-7, and organizations' own. We are currently
testing a mapping utility that allows repositories to map their own schema to
the MIC Core Registry of Data Elements to expedite ingest into the MIC Union Catalog.
This preconference will explore best practices for describing and
preserving moving images and digital video using metadata, as well as MIC's
extensible metadata strategy for making digital resources accessible and useful
to different audiences.
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