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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Forwarded from the NINCH list. Judy -------------Forwarded Message----------------- From: David Green, INTERNET:[log in to unmask] To: Multiple recipients of list, INTERNET:[log in to unmask] Date: 3/11/97 6:07 PM RE: MOVING IMAGES at CNI Project Briefing NINCH Members: Moving images will be the subject of the Project Briefing organized by NINCH for the CNI Task Force meeting <http://www.cni.org/tfms/1997a.spring/> in Washington, DC, April 1-2. The Briefing will consist of a report on issues and achievements regarding the preservation, cataloging and accessing of moving images through networking technology. This is an area that has mystified and intrigued me, especially concerning the development of description and cataloging standards for moving images and the interoperability of existing systems. The Briefing is timely as it coincides with the publication this month of the Library of Congress Report on Television and Video Preservation. David ================================ NETWORKING CULTURAL HERITAGE: THE STATE OF THE ART WITH MOVING IMAGES David Green, Executive Director, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage William Murphy, Specialist Audio-Video Archives, Non-Textual Archives, National Archives Susan Gauch, Assistant Professor, University of Kansas; Project Director, VISION Digital Video Library System There are still many challenges to face before cultural heritage moving images (from the 1903 movie The Great Train Robbery to 1970s Vietnam protest footage, to Nam June Paik's video art to Merce Cunningham's dance productions) can be found and then accessed on-line. The Library of Congress' reports on Film Preservation (1993) and TV and Video Preservation (1997) comprehensively review the state of film and video preservation and accessibility; evolving description and cataloging standards, interoperability between different systems and increased sharing of information are creating the groundwork for unified online catalogs; and advances in compression, streaming and searching technologies will enable us to actually view movies online. This session will provide an up-to-the-minute assessment of what is now and will be soon available.