Indiana U Bloomington Libraries Receives $1.2M Grant

Grant To Be Used To Develop Audiovisual Metadata Platform

Indiana University Bloomington libraries has received $1.2 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop an ability to search digitized audiovisual files.

The Libraries has set their sights on combing through hundreds of millions of hours of audiovisual content that contains multitudes of unheard stories. The extensive research with be conducted in partnership with the University of Texas at Austin, New York Public Library and information management consultant AVP. Together they will create and test a scalable Audiovisual Metadata Platform (AMP) that will generate searchable time-stamped descriptions for audiovisual content. 

Indiana University has one of the most ambitious digitization efforts nationwide to expand available digital content through the Media and Digitization Preservation Initiative. They are actively seeking ways to accelerate access to the hundreds of thousands of new digitized resources.

"From early in the 20th century and continuing through the present, audiovisual media contain vital and irreplaceable evidence that documents contemporary society and culture," Mellon Foundation senior program officer Donald J. Waters said. "Future understanding of the 20th century and beyond requires an aggressive investment today in tools and methods for preserving and providing research access to these media."

Read more at https://news.iu.edu/stories/2018/11/iub/releases/01-libraries-receives-mellon-grant-to-search-digitized-audiovisual-files.html

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