Name: Preparing Streaming Media for Accessibility: Three Organizations Share Their Efforts
Start: 2024-12-04T14:00:00-0600
End: 2024-12-04T15:00:00-0600

Wednesday December 4, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST

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Given the April 2024 updated Rule on the Accessibility of Web Content and Mobile Apps Provided by State and Local Governments, many organizations are working on plans to make their digitized archival audio-visual material accessible to all. With the vast quantity of streaming media available currently across our organizations, this panel will present the issues, the efforts that are beginning now and the challenges that will be faced. This will serve to introduce this topic to the AMIA community and to promote discussion within our field.

Speakers

Walter Forsberg

Curator of Audiovisual Media, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Walter Forsberg is Curator of Audiovisual Media at Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. His co-edited book on Mexican microcinemas, "Cine-Espacios," was published by Canyon Cinema in 2023. Walter's first AMIA was 2008 in Savannah, where he got to meet Rick Prelinger and Sam Kula IRL... Read More →

Jon Dunn

Assistant Dean for Library Technologies, Indiana University Libraries

Heather Heckman

Associate Dean for Technology, University of South Carolina Libraries

Crystal Sanchez

Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Institution

Crystal Sanchez is a media archivist at the Smithsonian Institution on the Digital Asset Management team (DAMS), working with digital audiovisual collections from across the Smithsonian’s diverse Museums, Archives, Libraries, Research Centers, and the Zoo. As a moving image archivist... Read More →

Rachael Stoeltje

Indiana University Libraries

Wednesday December 4, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
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