Preserving Digital Public Television
Part Two

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James Bullen, Unni Pillai and Brian Hoffman
Digital Library Team, New York University

As part of the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP), NYU, WNET, WGBH, and PBS have spent the past few years collaborating to preserve digital public television content. The two panels will discuss the development of the work and the project’s progress to date.
Coordinated by Nan Rubin, Project Director, Preserving Digital Public Television.

Part Two
Designing the Repository

NYU is currently developing a digital preservation repository, built around DSpace, which is intended to archive materials in many different formats. This development provides the basis for designing the model repository for preserving digital public television. Our prototyping has raised some interesting challenges, such as; dealing with very large video files, working with proprietary file formats and acquiring metadata from production work flows. In this session we will outline the repository design and discuss our approaches to some of these problems, including the use of Storage Resource Broker, Kepler, MXF, METS and PBCore.

Part One

Unni Pillai
Prior to joining NYU Digital library, Unni Pillai spent 15 years as a real-time embedded systems software engineer in the console game industry. He worked on developing physics based simulations, real time video servers on the PLAYSTATION 2, motion capture tools, and various frameworks for application development. He studied Electrical Engineering at SUNY Stony Brook, graduating in 1991. He is presently working on the NDIIPP Preserving Digital Public Television project and is working on the technical design and implementation of the Preservation repository at NYU Digital Library. His current work areas include metadata interoperability, distributed computing, grid based storage systems, and automation of work-flows.