Análisis bibliotecológico de los noticieros televisivos mexicanos en la Web

Television is unquestionably a vehicle that socializes the journalistic tale of the human experience. The evolution of journalistic documentation and the need to respond to the organization of content generated in video collections and television archives, in particular news broadcasts, have created new areas and niches of opportunity for library and information science professionals. The research that is being carried out in Mexico on the analysis of news broadcasts and content representation on the web is presented. The documentary news treatment is crucial to strengthen the quality of content representation and ensure the relevance of discourse analysis for its organization, accessibility and preservation. The visibility of television news on the Web could be lessened due to deficiencies in metadata description

Library science analysis of Mexican television news on the web

Television is unquestionably a vehicle that socializes the journalistic tale of the human experience. The evolution of journalistic documentation and the need to respond to the organization of content generated in video collections and television archives, in particular news broadcasts, have created new areas and niches of opportunity for library and information science professionals. The research that is being carried out in Mexico on the analysis of news broadcasts and content representation on the web is presented. The documentary news treatment is crucial to strengthen the quality of content representation and ensure the relevance of discourse analysis for its organization, accessibility and preservation. The visibility of television news on the Web could be lessened due to deficiencies in metadata description

Análisis bibliotecológico de los noticieros televisivos mexicanos en la Web

Television is unquestionably a vehicle that socializes the journalistic tale of the human experience. The evolution of journalistic documentation and the need to respond to the organization of content generated in video collections and television archives, in particular news broadcasts, have created new areas and niches of opportunity for library and information science professionals. The research that is being carried out in Mexico on the analysis of news broadcasts and content representation on the web is presented. The documentary news treatment is crucial to strengthen the quality of content representation and ensure the relevance of discourse analysis for its organization, accessibility and preservation. The visibility of television news on the Web could be lessened due to deficiencies in metadata description

Long-Term Preservation of Digital Records, Part I: A Theoretical Basis

The Information Revolution is making preservation of digital records an urgent issue. Archivists have grappled with the question of how to achieve this for about 15 years. We focus on limitations to preservation, identifying precisely what can be preserved and what cannot. Our answer comes from the philosophical theory of knowledge, especially its discussion about the limits of what can be communicated. Philosophers have taught that answers to critical questions have been obscured by "failure to understand the logic of our language". We can clarify difficulties by paying extremely close attention to the meaning of words such as 'knowledge', 'information', 'the original', and 'dynamic'. What is valuable in transmitted and stored messages, and what should be preserved, is an abstraction, the pattern inherent in each transmitted and stored digital record. This answer has, in fact, been lurking just below the surface of archival literature. To make progress, archivists must collaborate with software engineers. Understanding perspectives across disciplinary boundaries will be needed.

Archival time-based media : topologies of preservation and access

textThe analog time-based media of film, videotape, grooved sound recordings and audiotape have emerged as a growing area of concern for cultural institutions. Collectively, these media constitute a rich body of historical evidence and intangible cultural heritage whose varied physical and technological components incur a wide range of preservation needs. The current moment is also one where digitally-enabled technologies for migrating and sharing time-based media appear to hold infinite promise, even as the most vulnerable elements of the historical record embodied in moving images and recorded sound threaten to disappear. This study investigates the preservation of analog time-based media as it exists in local repositories. The study was formed in response to the needs of a specific collection of analog audio open reels containing music recorded at Houston's Andrus Studios dating from the 1960s and early 1970s, and to the task of finding an appropriate repository to acquire the collection. Physical, technological and intellectual aspects of time-based media are articulated in the literature review, study criteria and semi-structured interview questions employed for the study. The findings form a topology of preservation and access activities that exist in local repositories and that contribute to the sustainability of acquiring substantial collections of obsolete time-based media such as the Andrus Studios collection.Informatio

Volume 32, Number 3, September 2012 OLAC Newsletter

Digitized September 2012 issue of the OLAC Newsletter