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Digitization & Online Access

BPOC continues to make progress on improving the management of member content with a particular focus on surfacing the content online. Using our shared Rapid Digitization Lab, we have digitized more than 170,000 photos, slides, videos, audio clips, and pages of archival material from collections at the following organizations: Mingei International Museum, Museum of Photographic Arts, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, San Diego Air & Space Museum, San Diego History Center, San Diego Junior Theatre, San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego Hall of Champions, and The San Diego Museum of Art.
Additionally, more than 180,000 images and videos have been published online, garnering some 4 million page views.

To publicize the digitized images, BPOC's Senior Editor Maren Dougherty started a series called "Park Pieces" for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Links to the articles are below, along with other published articles about digitized images from the San Diego Air & Space Museum, San Diego Junior Theatre, and other BPOC member organizations.

Rapid Image Capture Station

 

Video Digitization

In addition to the more than 700 videos that BPOC digitized in its first year, BPOC has digitized 400 additional videos using its lab equipment.  The collection includes videos from the Mingei International Museum, the WorldBeat Cultural Center, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego Zoo Archives, San Diego Air and Space Museum, San Diego Hall of Champions, the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center and the San Diego History Center.  Hundreds of videos have been put online in a variety of ways including via YouTube as well as custom video portals Culturebeat.org and Championsportsinsider.org.

Film Digitization

BPOC jointly purchased specialized equipment with the San Diego Air and Space Museum to digitize 16mm film collections. 138 Films have been digitized and uploaded to YouTube and Flickr.

Audio Digitization

BPOC is working on a plan for digitizing audio formats represented in the collections of member institutions, including cassette tape, phonograph, and reel-to-reel tape—all of which are reasonably standard formats to digitize. The highest priority collection for audio digitization is a group of oral histories from the San Diego History Center currently stored on dictabelts.  Digitizing these oral histories is currently cost prohibitive and additional funding will need to be identified for this project.