American Archive of Public Broadcasting Archives Project

I'm active with another online contrutor service, Zooniverse, that usaully relates to scientific research. But they have recently launch a new project that I thought IMDB contributors and  IMDB itsself might like to be involved with. Here's the message I received. Regards - Dave


The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a collaboration between the Library of Congress and WGBH, has launched Roll the Credits, a new Zooniverse project to catalog unseen content in their online archive. 

The AAPB is coordinating a national effort to preserve at-risk public media before its content is lost to posterity and provide a central web portal for access to the unique programming that public stations have aired over the past 60 years. To date, over 50,000 hours of television and radio programming contributed by more than 100 public media organizations and archives across the United States have been digitized for long-term preservation and access. The entire collection is available on location at the Library of Congress and WGBH, and almost 25,000 programs are available online at americanarchive.org. 

As the story goes, every picture tells a story, but with Roll the Credits, we’ve extracted the beginning and ending frames of thousands of digitized public broadcasting programs that contain vital metadata needed for researchers’ search and discovery, such as titles, dates, credits, and copyright statements.

Your help in classifying and transcribing this information is directly added to the AAPB catalogue, making these programs not only more accessible to researchers, but also helping the AAPB archivists identify gaps in their archive and develop plans to make it more comprehensive.

Travel the time-zones with us as AAPB releases historic, local public media programming each week! 

Thanks for supporting AAPB’s mission in preserving and making accessible historic content from public broadcasting stations across the United States. Know someone who might be interested? Feel free to share with the other transcribers and public media fans in your life!

Get involved right now at www.zooniverse.org/projects/sroosa/roll-the-credits.