Youtube to Archive Project - Midwestern Region version Goals of the Project lower barriers to archiving digital media complement centers' existing practice increase number of centers that archive their video give policy makers visibility into the scope and size of diverse activities of access centers/PEG stations make the ephemeral permanent two parts to the project: catalog & generate statistics on access center/PEG station use of Youtube and Vimeo archive the metadata and video from Youtube/Vimeo to Internet Archive currently in the cataloging phase statistics will be free, archiving will probably be a fee based service "we'll do the archiving, you improve the metadata" Jenn Ramsay, Northampton Community TV adds a "tags:" line in youtube description that can be mapped to archive.org subject/keywords fields the Community Media Archive will remain a free "Do It Yourself" archive effort shoutout to Dakota Media Access and Chicago Access Network for getting their archives established on the Community Media Archive and continuing to upload each have over 1,100 videos archived on the Internet Archive the Royal Society for the Arts, Peak Moment and Big History Project collections are the first examples of Youtube channels uploaded to archive.org. More than 1,000 MPEG2 "broadcast ready" Creative Commons licensed videos available for centers to air: https://archive.org/details/royal_society_arts https://archive.org/details/peak_moment https://archive.org/details/big_history_project the Youtube to Archive project complements the existing Community Media Archive, bulk uploader, portable thumb drive uploader and upload to Internet Archive projects that John has developed What do you think of the idea? Let John know! send john@accesshumboldt.net your youtube or vimeo URL if you want it included in the statistics more info @ http://accesshumboldt.net/wiki/index.php?title=Community_media_archive these notes: http://accesshumboldt.net/Community_Media_Archive/ACM_2015_Regional_Presentation/youtube_to_archive.txt Midwestern Region subset of scoping spreadsheet as of 4/27/2015: http://accesshumboldt.net/Community_Media_Archive/ACM_2015_Regional_Presentation/youtube-archive-20150427-MidwesternRegionSubset.xls National scoping spreadsheet as of 4/27/2015: http://accesshumboldt.net/Community_Media_Archive/ACM_2015_Regional_Presentation/youtube-archive-20150427.xls Daniel Krawczyk photo mosaic image with PEG Media Partners Youtube thumbnails: http://accesshumboldt.net/Community_Media_Archive/ACM_2015_Regional_Presentation/daniel4/index.html Erica Jones photo mosaic image with Somerville Community TV Youtube thumbnails: http://accesshumboldt.net/Community_Media_Archive/ACM_2015_Regional_Presentation/erica/index.html Mike Wassenaar photo mosaic with Saint Paul Neighborhood Network Youtube thumbnails: http://accesshumboldt.net/Community_Media_Archive/ACM_2015_Regional_Presentation/mike/index.html