Finding and Using Moving Images in Context

FAIN: HD-50178-07

Northeast Historic Film (Bucksport, ME 04416-4027)
Karan Sheldon (Project Director: April 2007 to November 2008)

The development of tools and practices for describing and accessing digital film and video materials.

Using selected moving images from Northeast Historic Film, this project will take a team approach to achieve open access with a metadata system incorporating emerging standards for discovery. We will emphasize contextualization, building tools to provide access to articles, scene-by-scene notes, both item-level and collection-level descriptive records, and we will integrate this information with new curriculum materials through easy-to-use interfaces. Partners are Primary Source and China Source, Maine Historical Society's Maine Memory Network, MIC, and the University of Maine's Windows on Maine. Three China scholars associated with Primary Source are committed to the project. We will digitize and put online unique footage of China,1928-1936, with rights to reuse, and we will ensure that researchers can easily find, identify, understand, and use the moving images. Teachers will participate in evaluation, informing decisions regarding follow-up initiatives.

Associated Products

Finding and Using Moving Images in Context (Web Resource)
Title: Finding and Using Moving Images in Context
Author: Teeter Bibber
Author: Karan Sheldon
Abstract: Using selected moving images from Northeast Historic Film, this project employed a team approach for open access. The project emphasized contextualization of archival footage, building tools to provide access to articles, scene-by-scene notes, both item-level and collection-level descriptive records. Three China scholars provided content and used the work in their scholarship and teaching. The project was built on archival footage of China, 1928-1936, with rights to reuse. Teachers participated in evaluation. White Paper available, http://www.neh.gov/ODH/Default.aspx?tabid=111&id=21
Year: 2007
Primary URL: http://movingimagesincontext.org/
Primary URL Description: Moving images with item and collection level description; PBCore and EAD metadata. Scholar's commentary by Peter Ditmanson, http://www.movingimagesincontext.org/collections/branch/paperchase/ In Context: Joan Branch Collection Shanghai and environs shot by Joseph Swan, an American, who had married in Shanghai in 1923, then raised his family there. He founded the Shanghai investment banking and brokerage firm Swan, Culbertson & Fritz. In Context: Charles Gilbert Collection Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai in 1928 shot by a traveling businessman. Mr and Mrs Gilbert traveled the world by steamship; this film is part of a record of their trip and incorporates footage shot by Gilbert and purchased film.
Secondary URL: http://movingimagesincontext.org/blog/
Secondary URL Description: Moving Images in Context project blog, 52 entries outlining process, obstacles and products.

Primary Sources cited and included on CD-ROM, China in the World, A History Since 1644 (Book Section)
Title: Primary Sources cited and included on CD-ROM, China in the World, A History Since 1644
Author: Ed., curriculum specialists at Primary Source, Inc.
Abstract: Chapter 8, Early Republican Perid (1912-1928) Clips from Northeast Historic Film, 1934 Americans Living in Shanghai, The Paper Chase, An American Family Tours the Countryside
Year: 2009
Primary URL: http://www.cheng-tsui.com/store/products/china_world
Primary URL Description: China in the World (book and CD-ROM set) explores China’s captivating history through engrossing historical narrative and hundreds of primary sources.
Publisher: Cheng & Tsui Company, Boston
Book Title: China in the World A History Since 1644
ISBN: 9780887276217

Outreach, Preservation and Access Initiatives Within and Between Regions (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Outreach, Preservation and Access Initiatives Within and Between Regions
Author: Karan Sheldon
Abstract: Association of Moving Image Archivists annual conference in Rochester, NY, September 2007. Regional Audiovisual Archivists committee presented a panel, “Preservation and Access Initiatives Within and Between Regions,” attended by 75+ people. Karan Sheldon chaired and discussed NEH Digital Startup opportunity.
Date: 9/27/2007
Primary URL: http://movingimagesincontext.org/blog/?p=13
Primary URL Description: Blog post on conference session
Conference Name: ssociation of Moving Image Archivists annual conference

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