The digitisation and commercial licensing of local television news as a model for preservation and access: A case study

Anna Esparza and Morgan Davis Gieringer
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Anna Esparza: University of North Texas, Willis Library, USA
Morgan Davis Gieringer: University of North Texas Libraries, Willis Library, USA

Journal of Digital Media Management, 2021, vol. 10, issue 2, 167-176

Abstract: Since 2014, the Special Collections Department of the University of North Texas Libraries (UNTL) has worked to digitise over 60 years’ worth of historical film and video and provide online digital access to news programming that was originally broadcast under the name WBAP-TV, and later NBC 5/KXAS-TV. Revenue from commercial licensing is expected to contribute an increasingly significant percentage of the funding needed to make the collection fully digitally accessible. This paper looks briefly at the history of the NBC5 news collection and examines the workflows required to prepare film and video for digitisation, perform quality control on digital files, and apply metadata keywords and content description to make footage easier for easily filmmakers to discover online. The paper will also discuss the licensing workflows in place at UNTL and how footage has been licensed for use in a variety of projects.

Keywords: news film; videotape; digitisation; digital workflows; commercial licensing; special collections (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M11 M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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