ASSOCIATION OF MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVISTS (AMIA)
Liaison Report
Submitted by Jane Johnson
UCLA Film and Television Archive
Moving Image Gateway Receives NSF Funding
The AMIA Moving Image Gateway project has received nearly $900,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation and officially began its NSF grant-funded phase October 1, 2002.
A collaboration of AMIA and the Library of Congress, the Gateway is a union catalog and portal for discovery of moving image resources for education and research that will facilitate collaborative cataloging, preservation, and digitization activities. In addition to the union catalog, it will include an international directory of moving image repositories, a cataloging facility, and an education/outreach component, with the directory information integrated into the union catalog. The Gateway will also accommodate a dynamic web page for each archive.
Seven institutions with significant moving image collections in both analog and digital format have been selected as alpha implementer sites: the Library of Congress, Cable News Network (CNN), National Geographic Television, National Library of Medicine, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Research Channel and the Smithsonian Institution.
The Library of Congress will host the Gateway. Developer sites are Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Washington.
In late July the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress hosted and funded a two-day planning meeting to develop the Gateway's Archive Directory component. Many participants continued after the meeting in working groups and prepared reports that are being used to develop the Directory prototype. This was a very productive meeting attended by about 50 people representing virtually every moving image constituency, as well as developers and alpha sites.
AMIA Annual Conference
The twelfth annual AMIA conference will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, November 19-23, 2002. Headquartered at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, it is expected to draw approximately 600 attendees from around the world. The conference will include a diverse range of workshops, technical symposia, and special screenings; the theme will be "Digital Issues."
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