ITR: Television News Archieve: A Pilit to Explore Technologies and Methodologies for Digitization

Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN

Investigators

Abstract

This project is related to the digitization of the Television News Archive at Vanderbilt University. The issues to be addressed during the project include: 1. Evaluation of alternate delivery technologies (streaming video methods and different kinds of video servers). 2. Technology for identifying program segments, and labeling the results of the segmentation. 3. Acquisition methods for future content acquisition. 4. Time stamp technology and uses. 5. Algorithms and processes for signal conditioning for increasing quality of the data archive. The Vanderbilt archive is crucial for historians: it contains the only records of TV news for some years starting in 1968. However, it is currently stored on obsolete analog technology. This proposal takes advantage of the need to digitize the material to explore techniques that could be applied to many other kinds of video digitization projects.