PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Subject to Change

9:30am
  Welcome  
 
  "Your Technocracy and Mine" (1932) (10 min.)
Courtesy of Universal Studios
 
  DAS 2008 Introduction
    Peter B. Kaufman
Intelligent Television
 
  METADATA
    Introduction
Linda Tadic
New York University, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program
       
    NBC Universal
     

Speakers:   
.........Chris Gianutsos, VP Digital Growth Initiatives
.........David Pugh, VP Asset Management Technology
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      NBCUniversal is a diverse corporation that creates and distributes content for all facets of entertainment - TV, Film, Web, DVD. Chris and David are in the process of building an enterprise metadata specification and will speak to the challenges that they are dealing with in this monumental task.
       
    Sveriges Television SVT (Swedish Television)
     

Speaker:
.........Eva-Lis Green, Head of Media Asset Management Strategy
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      This case study will describe SVT’s technology infrastructure, focusing on the creation of metadata throughout the digital production-to-archiving process.
 
       
LUNCH BREAK (Lunch on your own)
       
       
  NUTS AND BOLTS
    Introduction
Tom Regal, NBC Universal
       
    Democracy Now!
     

Speakers:
......... David Rice, Archivist
......... Mike Castleman, Staff Hacker
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      Democracy Now! is a daily news program distributed over a large, grassroots network of radio, television, and internet stations. David Rice and Mike Castleman will explain how and why they use free and open tools to record, encode, disseminate, catalog, manage, preserve, and provide access to Democracy Now's broadcasts and archive
       
    Preserving Digital Public Television: WNET and New York University
     

Speakers:
......... Kara Van Malssen, Research Fellow, New York University
......... Jonathan Marmor, Manager, IT and Broadband Operations,
......... ......... Thirteen/WNET New York
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      This presentation will report on the Preserving Digital Public Television project, funded by the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) of the Library of Congress.  Representatives from project partners Thirteen/WNET and New York University will describe the design of the model collaborative repository for "born digital" broadcasting. They will discuss workflows between multiple partners that include culling metadata and implementing standards, and will describe the broader impact of this project on public television stations and the public television system.
       
    BBC Scotland
     

Speakers:
......... Noreen Adams, Head of Media Management
......... Lynne Hunt, Digital Library Applications Manager, BBC Scotland
......... Vicky Plaine, Archive Manager, BBC Scotland

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The digital delivery puzzle - piecing together the systems and workflows:
BBC Scotland shares their experience of  building and working in a fully integrated tapless environment. Describing the delivery of an integrated avid to library workflow and streamlined radio archiving process.