it's not solely about archiving its about metadata it's about designing your metadata at a collection level not at an item level so that you're ready for the future OTT, OSG, EPG, apps, smart devices, settop boxes the future of video distribution is not TV, it's the internet you need consistently tagged video to get ready for the future metadata storage that's vendor neutral preparing for archiving/preservation can help prepare for the future think about how you want to group your video programs think about how users interact with your video https://www.nngroup.com/articles/optimizing-omnichannel-ux/ take metadata prep away from social media intern turn it over to programming group consistency how are others going to find this video? Youtube & Vimeo i can provide you with a spreadsheet of your previously entered metadata (entered at the item level) you can modify it clean it up i can run a bulk change to update metadata i can bulk upload your Youtube/Vimeo channel to the Community Media Archive Archiving as a Service vs. Do it Yourself Archiving you should be spending your time on the metadata not on archiving if you have video that you're not putting up on Youtube/Vimeo, why not? Do you use bot Youtube and Vimeo? Why? Do you have a strategy/policy about what goes on your YT/V channel? Does your YT/V channel represent your organization and it's values well? Let's create the archive of the future! How do you want to be remembered?