10 things to consider before you start archiving Policy Level 0. decide who's going to do it - consistency - a little Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is needed! 1. determine Creative Commons licensing options - required if station equipment used? 2. upload only locally produced media 3. develop a takedown process 4. talk to your producers about archiving, CC licensing, and distribution to other access stations Procedural Level 5. start with "born digital" media do digitization of tapes after you've got the Internet Archive part of the process down 6. upload MPEG2 files or let Internet Archive derive the MPEG2 files from wide-screen original 7. get producer permission for web distribution - modify submission form 8. get metadata from the producer - more is better 9. which metadata elements to include - push everything you've got to archive.org 10. active collection curation - add series & episode tags, create keywords, overload "subject" More Decisions 11. decide whether to backup your metadata (and video) from your archive collection 12. do you want your Archive collection available via the Roku