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The digitisation and commercial licensing of local television news as a model for preservation and access: A case study
Journal of Digital Media Management,
10
(2),
167-176
(2021)
Abstract
Since 2014, the Special Collections Department of the University of North Texas Libraries (UNTL) has worked to digitise over 60 years’ worth of historical film and video and provide online digital access to news programming that was originally broadcast under the name WBAP-TV, and later NBC 5/KXAS-TV. Revenue from commercial licensing is expected to contribute an increasingly significant percentage of the funding needed to make the collection fully digitally accessible. This paper looks briefly at the history of the NBC5 news collection and examines the workflows required to prepare film and video for digitisation, perform quality control on digital files, and apply metadata keywords and content description to make footage easier for easily filmmakers to discover online. The paper will also discuss the licensing workflows in place at UNTL and how footage has been licensed for use in a variety of projects.
Keywords: news film; videotape; digitisation; digital workflows; commercial licensing; special collections
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Author's Biography
Anna Esparza is the Digitization and Metadata Specialist for Special Collections at the University of North Texas Libraries, where she oversees the completion of major archival projects, including the WBAP/KXAS Television News Film Collection, the Black Academy of Arts and Letters Records, the Dallas Way LGBTQ Archive and the Byrd Williams Family Photography Archive. Her professional interests include sharing access to Texas history as well as technical processes such as digitisation and metadata. She has a master’s in information science from the University of North Texas.
Morgan Davis Gieringer Morgan Gieringer is Head of Special Collections at the University of North Texas Libraries. She is also Director of the Graduate Academic Certificate in Archival Management at the University of North Texas College of Information, and teaches graduate courses in archival management. She is a certified archivist with over 15 years’ experience leading and managing historical initiatives.
