Youtube to Archive Project - SHLB version Goals of the Project lower barriers to archiving digital media complement anchor institution's existing practice increase number of libraries and schools that archive their video give policy makers visibility into the scope and size of diverse activities of schools, libraries and other anchor institutions make the ephemeral permanent two parts to the project: catalog & generate statistics on libraries and schools 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_shlb.txt Statistics on Libraries use of Youtube and Vimeo as of 5/15/15 http://accesshumboldt.net/Community_Media_Archive/ACM_2015_Regional_Presentation/libraries_youtube-archive_20150519.xls Statistics on Schools use of Youtube as of 5/15/15 http://accesshumboldt.net/Community_Media_Archive/ACM_2015_Regional_Presentation/schools_youtube-archive_20150519.xls Photo Mosaic of SHLB Conference Logo made from Libraries Youtube thumbnail images http://accesshumboldt.net/Community_Media_Archive/ACM_2015_Regional_Presentation/shlb/index.html