supporting new media activities in public television
Over the past several years, Wisconsin Public Television has formed a network
of public television (PTV), university and private partners via the Collaborative
Production and Reforging
the Links projects. Designed to reestablish the natural, and mutually
beneficial, relationships between PTV and educational organizations, Reforging
the Links also explored the integration of new media and the development
of new PTV business practices.
Expanding on the Reforging
the Links project, WPT now embarks on a two-year initiative to evolve
and expand the Reforging the
Links ideas into practice, developing and modeling new public services.
Evolving
the Links will explore, develop and disseminate new PTV services.
These services will be driven by a national network of PTV stations and research
universities with the goals of engaging in R&D, providing multimedia training,
pursuing the study and sharing of best digital practices, and modeling convergence
projects. The initiative will focus on four areas (three research and one management):
Evolving the Links
September 24-26, 2003
Madison, Wisconsin
The most recent Evolving the Links conference held on
September 24-26, 2003 in Madison, Wisconsin, gathered over one hundred representatives
from universities and public television stations from across the country. The
conference focused on current developments in digital repositories, connectivitiy,
and distribution, and how changes in information technology affect the evolution
of public service media. In addition, reports from CPB, APTS, and NASULGC examined
possibilities for collaboration and funding sources to help us research the
shared digital future. Listen to the audio proceedings
and download Powerpoint presentations»
2002
The 2002 Evolving the Links conference was held on March 25 & 26, 2002 in
Madison, Wis. gathered nearly one hundred representatives from universities
and public television stations from across the country. Listen
to the audio proceedings and download Powerpoint presentations»
WEB RESOURCES
AMIA Cataloging and Documentation Committee http://www.amianet.org/05_Committees/5b2_CDSite/index.html
AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) are leaders in the use of MARC
for moving image cataloging, and they have links to numerous resources for this.
Portal Wisconsin http://www.portalwisconsin.org Stations who are interested in learning more about portalwisconsin can find
information in the About
Us section on our website.
ViDe Video Access Working Group http://www.vide.net/workgroups/videoaccess/index.shtml
There are lots of presentations and resources referenced from that website,
including all the presentations with powerpoint slides (RealPresenter videos
and just powerpoint slides) from the conference, "Managing Digital Video
Content" that ViDe co-sponsored.
