Grant partners

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Grant partners
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Scenarios of Use forLocally-Owned Content
Collections
Offerings for NJVid from Sample Alpha
Implementers Collections

• Rutgers University Special Collections and
  University Archives (SC/UA)
• University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ
• Passaic Valley Regional High School

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Collections Profiled According to

• Content
• Quantity
• Permissions Status
• Format(s)
• Cataloging/Metadata Status
• Physical Access to Material
• Usefulness/Value

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Rutgers University SC/UA

• Content
• University Archives
• RUTV programming
• Other University programs
• Rutgers Forum
• NJ Symposium
• Promotional and Commencement footage

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Rutgers University SC/UA

• Content (continued)
• Special Collections
• National Maritime Union
• Quantity
• Thousands overall
• Approx. 500 ¾ U-Matic tapes(predominantly
  Rutgers Forum and Symposium)

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Rutgers University SC/UA

• Permissions Status
• Unknown or none on most material
• RUTV might have or likely to have permission
• Permissions granted by RUTV, not RUL
• Format(s)
• Film 8mm, Super-8mm, 16mm
• Tape ¾ U-Matic, 1 and 2 open reel, BetaCam,
  BetaCam SP, Digital Betacam

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Rutgers University SC/UA

• Cataloging/Metadata Status
• Ongoing inventory of holdings
• Have recorded readily available metadata (e.g.
  taken from tape labels)
• Level and detail of description varies

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Rutgers University SC/UA

• Physical Access to Material
• Easy access but physical condition is
  questionable
• Usefulness/Value
• RUTV material likely to be viewed often
• Other material
• Unknown
• Might be hit or miss

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University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ

• Content
• History of Medicine Lecture Series
• 8 speakers/year for 11 years
• Funded by Medical History Society of NJ
• Local videos
• TV Interviews with UMDNJ specialists
• News stories about the University
• Special events (e.g. lectures, symposia)
• State of the University
• White Coat series

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University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ

• Quantity
• Approx. 80-90 lectures/presentations
• Unknown number of local videos
• Permissions Status
• Unknown, but
• Possibly could be attained because participants
  might still be alive
• Footage is from 1980s and 1990s

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University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ

• Format(s)
• Lecture Series ½ VHS
• Local Videos VHS and ¾ U-Matic
• Cataloging/Metadata Status
• Lecture Series
• Have recorded limited but essential metadata
• Local Videos
• Little to none
• Need to be viewed

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University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ

• Physical Access to Material
• Stored in good conditions at Special Collections
  of Smith Library
• Unknown physical condition have not been viewed
  for years
• Usefulness/Value
• High among both collections

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Passaic Valley Regional High School

• Content
• Science in the Cinema Videoconferencing Series
• Interactive discussions with students regarding
  ethical and moral issues in science and
  technology
• Bookended with comments by experts in the field

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Passaic Valley Regional High School

• Content (continued)
• How-to professional development videos
• Student-created videos
• Some submitted for awards consideration in
  Passaic County
• Around the World
• Global Nomads
• Tsunamis and Iraq

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Passaic Valley Regional High School

• Quantity
• Science in the Cinema Approx. 12 tapes
• Other collections unknown
• Permissions Status
• Unknown
• Format(s)
• Unknown

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Passaic Valley Regional High School

• Cataloging/Metadata Status
• Have only rudimentary metadata
• Might need to be fleshed out

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Passaic Valley Regional High School

• Physical Access to Material
• Some are deposited at NJEDge
• Unknown physical condition
• Science videos are lengthy and need to be
  segmented into learning objects post-digitization
• Usefulness/Value
• High among both collections

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Summary and Trends

• Content
• Two series covering sciences with field experts
• Titles pertaining to sociology and weather
• Multiple collections of University- created and
  relevant videos
• Student-created videos
• Collection of nautical footage

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Summary and Trends

• Permissions
• Widely unknown throughout all three surveyed
  institutions
• RUTV is through different organizational unit
• Format(s)
• Have formats that will need to be professionally
  transferred, or playback equipment will need to
  be purchased

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Summary and Trends

• Cataloging/Metadata Status
• Somewhat incomplete
• Institutions might need to flesh this out
  depending upon their needs and staff
• Physical Access to Material
• No known difficulty
• Questionable physical condition of legacy
  material necessitates added care during workflow

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Summary and Trends

• Usefulness/Value
• Largely high
• Worthwhile for the institutions to upload this
  content, but requires some preparatory work
• Rights/Permissions
• Additional metadata
• Preservation work on older physical assets prior
  to digitization?