AMP (Audiovisual Metadata Platform)
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The New York Public Library is developing and executing a visionary strategy for digitization, digital preservation, and access. The Library stewards rapidly growing collections of digitized and born-digital collection items, and it works to make these collections easier to discover, sample, use, and reuse in more creative ways.
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AMP (Audiovisual Metadata Platform)
Status: Active
Launched: 2018
The Indiana University Libraries, in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin, New York Public Library, and digital consultant AVP, were awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2018 to support initial development, implementation, and pilot testing of an Audiovisual Metadata Platform (AMP) that will enable more efficient generation of metadata to support discovery and use of digitized and born-digital audio and moving image collections. This grant was preceded by a workshop and resulting white paper funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and hosted by IU as part of a planning project for design and development of AMP. The partners leading this planning project were the IU Libraries, University of Texas at Austin (UT) School of Information, and AVP. In the years leading up to this workshop, the project partners had embarked upon various initiatives investigating audiovisual description. In 2015, IU and AVP investigated models and developed a strategy for high-throughput description of audiovisual materials that are being digitized as part of IU’s Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (MDPI).
A third round of support from the Mellon Foundation has been secured to continue pilot testing through 2022. Learn more here.
