American Archive of Public Broadcasting

{{external media | width = 210px | float = right | headerimage=General introduction and history | video1 = [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjo4siT5DF0 Casey Davis: Why Archive Public Media?], 2016, 19:48, GBH Forum Network{{cite web | title =Casey Davis: Why Archive Public Media? | publisher =GBH Forum Network | date =September 8, 2016 | url =https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjo4siT5DF0 | access-date =September 11, 2016 }}

| video2 = [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RDdc03TaFA Karen Cariani: The History of Public Media and the AAPB], 2016, 29:42, GBH Forum Network{{cite web | title =Karen Cariani: The History of Public Media and the AAPB | publisher =GBH Forum Network | date =September 9, 2016 | url =https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RDdc03TaFA | access-date =September 11, 2016}}

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{{external media | width = 210px | float = right | headerimage=Example of online content | audio1 = [http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_500-hh6c6k07 The American Town: A Self-Portrait: Durand, Michigan], 1967, 29:50, American Archive of Public Broadcasting{{cite web | title =American Town, The: A Self-Portrait; Durand, Michigan | work = American Archive of Public Broadcasting (WGBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC | publisher =WUOM, University of Michigan | date =January 17, 1967 | url =http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_500-hh6c6k07 | access-date =September 11, 2016 }}

| video1 = [http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_285B9C3362534FFF8494B95922E3240B Prospects of Mankind with Eleanor Roosevelt; What Status For Women?], 59:07, 1962.
Eleanor Roosevelt, chair of the Commission, interviews President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg and others, WGBH Open Vault via AAPB{{cite web | title =Prospects of Mankind with Eleanor Roosevelt; What Status For Women? | work = National Educational Television | publisher =WGBH Open Vault | date =1962 | url =http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_285B9C3362534FFF8494B95922E3240B | access-date =September 19, 2016 }} }}

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) began inventorying US public media content in 2007. By 2013, 2.5 million items had been inventoried including 40,000 hours of broadcasting which was being digitized with funding from the CPB.{{Cite web|title=About the AAPB|url=https://americanarchive.org/about-the-american-archive|website=americanarchive.org|access-date=2020-05-20}} An advisory council, which included Ken Burns, John W. Carlin, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cokie Roberts, Stephen D. Smith, Margaret Spellings, Howard Stringer, and Jesús Salvador Treviño, recommended that a collaboration between WGBH and the Library of Congress form and operate the archive.{{cite web | title =Corporation for Public Broadcasting Awards Library of Congress and WGBH with Stewardship of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting | publisher =Library of Congress | date =November 19, 2013 | url =http://loc.gov/today/pr/2013/13-203.html | access-date =September 11, 2016 }}

In the first phase of the project, which began in 2013, the Archive will complete the digitization of 40,000 hours of radio and television programs and select an additional 5,000 hours of born-digital programs to be included in the collection. The collection will be made available to the public on-site in Washington, D.C. and in Boston. A rights clearance strategy will be developed to comply with legal restrictions, including copyright law and a website will provide public access to much of the collection.{{cite web|title=American Archive of Public Broadcasting Permanent Entity Grant|url=http://americanarchive.org/about-the-american-archive/projects/permanent-entity|website=American Archive of Public Broadcasting|access-date=October 1, 2016}}

Programs from National Educational Television (NET), which operated from 1952 through 1972, are being cataloged in a project scheduled to be completed in 2018. 8,000–10,000 NET titles are expected to be cataloged and an incomplete preliminary list is currently online.{{cite web|title=National Educational Television (NET) Collection Catalog Project|url=http://americanarchive.org/about-the-american-archive/projects/net-catalog|website=American Archive of Public Broadcasting|access-date=October 1, 2016}}

The PBS NewsHour Digitization Project has made more than 13,500 episodes of PBS NewsHour and its predecessor programs available online. Transcripts of over 9,000 shows (1975–2015) will also be made available.{{cite web|title=PBS NewsHour Digitization Project|url=http://americanarchive.org/about-the-american-archive/projects/newshour|website=American Archive of Public Broadcasting|access-date=October 1, 2016}} Video excerpts of the NewsHour is included.

The Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship (PBPF) began in 2018 and supports graduate students enrolled in non-specialized programs to pursue digital preservation projects at public broadcasting organizations around the country.{{Cite web|title=Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship|url=https://pbpf.americanarchive.org/|website=Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship|language=en|access-date=2020-05-20}} In 2020, the University of Alabama partnered with WGBH to adopt and launch its model of the PBPF program, providing both local and remote students enrolled in the University of Alabama's School of Library and Information Studies with opportunities to pursue Fellowships at stations in their area.{{Cite web|title=New Graduate Scholarships in Audio-Visual Preservation and Archiving of Public Media|url=https://americanarchivepb.wordpress.com/2020/01/28/new-graduate-scholarships-in-audio-visual-preservation-and-archiving-of-public-media/|last=Kaufman|first=~ Casey Davis|date=2020-01-28|website=American Archive of Public Broadcasting|language=en|access-date=2020-05-20}}

In 2021, the AAPB launched the “Presenting the Past" podcast series in collaboration with the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). The series features informed conversations with scholars, educators, industry professionals, researchers, archivists, and others about significant events, issues, and topics documented in the AAPB collections.{{Cite web|title=Presenting the Past: Exploring the American Archive of Public Broadcasting Podcast|url=https://demo.aapb.wgbh-mla.org/about-the-american-archive/podcast|access-date=2021-06-09|website=demo.aapb.wgbh-mla.org}}

The AAPB Special Collections{{Cite web|title=Special Collections|url=https://americanarchive.org/special_collections|website=americanarchive.org|access-date=2020-05-08}} include notable selections of public radio and television content with a specified search bar for items within the collection, a detailed summary of the content, and related resources. Some of these collections feature individual series such as Say Brother (now known as Basic Black),{{Cite web|title=Say Brother|url=https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/say-brother|website=americanarchive.org|access-date=2020-05-20}} raw interviews from documentaries such as Eyes on the Prize and Ken Burns' The Civil War,{{Cite web|title=Eyes on the Prize Interviews|url=https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/eotp-i-interviews|website=americanarchive.org|access-date=2020-05-08}} event coverage such as the Watergate Hearings,{{Cite web|title=The Watergate Hearings|url=https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/watergate|website=americanarchive.org|access-date=2020-05-20}} and selections of items related to specific themes, such as the LGBT+ Collection.{{Cite web|title=LGBT+ Collection|url=https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/lgbt|website=americanarchive.org|access-date=2020-05-20}}

In the AAPB curated Exhibits, curators select primary and secondary source recordings to present a diversity of perspectives concerning the exhibit's focus. These exhibits illuminate how public broadcasting stations and producers have covered topics such as civil rights, climate change, speaking and protesting in America, public media and presidential elections, structuring news magazines, televising Black politics, and historic preservation on public broadcasting.{{Cite web|title=Exhibits|url=https://americanarchive.org/exhibits|website=americanarchive.org|access-date=2020-05-20}}

• National Public Broadcasting Archives
• PBCore

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• [https://pbpf.americanarchive.org/ Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship (PBPF)]

• [https://www.argus-press.com/news/community/durand/article_2a57909e-7231-11e6-be62-e3b7227bd802.html Forgotten radio show offers view into Durand's past], Rich Tupica, Argus-Press, September 4, 2016.
• [http://yubanet.com/scitech/how-segregationists-sold-their-message-on-us-television/ How segregationists sold their message on US television], University of Leicester, August 31, 2016.
• [https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2019/11/07/podcast-218-archiving-public-media/ RadioSurvivor Podcast #218: Archiving Public Media], November 7, 2019.
• [http://www.aca-media.org/news/2020/3/19/episode-53-just-a-plain-curiosity Aca-Media Podcast, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Episode 53: Just a Plain Curiosity], March 19, 2020.
• [https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2021/06/08/podcast-301-digitizing-transcribing-the-archives-of-nyc-progressive-church-radio/ RadioSurvivor Podcast #301: Digitizing & Transcribing the Archives of NYC Progressive Church Radio], June 9, 2020.

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