WGBH Open Vault

A Framework for access to rich media material

Project overview

3 different sites developed from 3 different grants New Television Workshop

Experimental video art Say Brother

Local series on African American Community in Boston Ten O’Clock News

Nightly local news series - select stories on African American community in Boston and busing

Issues with the 3 previous sites

No cross reference No cross searching Each site evolved with more sophistication

Overall goal

Bring 3 sites together with cross searchable metadata and general subject heading browsing

Add approximately 50 new assets from the WGBH archive

What are the new assets?

44 interviews from War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

1 interview from Vietnam: A Television History

1 interview from Press and the People 5 public domain assets to contextualize the

interview material

New resource tools

Display full raw transcript interviews Note taking function Send resource pages to interested parties Full DVD of selected interviews for use in

classrooms http://openvault.wgbh.org/