The purpose of Northeast Historic Film is to preserve, and make available to the public, historic film/videotape of the northern New England region. This purpose will be carried out by activities including, but not limited to, a comprehensive survey of moving picture resources of interest to the people of northern New England, the preservation of historic film/tape through restoration, duplication, providing of technical guidance, and vault storage; a touring program to bring historic films to audiences throughout the area; and the establishment of a study center, including resource materials and reference copies of motion picture films and videotapes.
NHF Statement of Purpose
Moving Image Review, published twice a year, will provide news and information about projects and ideas designed to preserve northern New England cultural heritage on film and videotape.
Moving Image Review Winter 1988
“A Personal Welcome To Our Readers”
The original project, “Northeast Historic Film’s Moving Image Review Online” was funded by the Maine Humanities Council for work between July 2007 and June 2008. The goal of the project was to publish the entire publication’s run (twice yearly from 1988 to 12007) in searchable and readable form online with live links, referring the reader to moving images (links to clips), creators (bibliographic records), places (geographical terms) and other organizational connections such as links to museums, libraries, historical societies, and their relevant documents and interpretive materials. (see Project Goal (.doc) – final proposal to be posted when I locate it)
Additionally, the project was understood to be a “proof of concept” for use of Greenstone 3 as the application to build out Moving Image Review Online as an exemplar Digital Library.
There were difficulties in finding a hosting company to meet the system requirements of Greenstone 3 and, once hosting was secured, getting the application to fully function became very problematic with a rolling list of associated applications needing to be compiled from source. It became clear that Greenstone 3 required complete control of the server where it was to be installed. By the time this requirement was met, the test interface did not meet the standards of the project. Furthermore, the conclusion that Greenstone 2 would have been a better choice of Digital Library software was also reached too late in the project for a successful Greenstone 2 interface to be built. The project’s goal of permanent online publication of Moving Image Review as a Digital Library was not going to be accomplished.
The work that was completed during “Northeast Historic Film’s Moving Image Review Online” informed another, successful project: Moving Images in Context [movingimagesincontext.org] But, the full extent of work completed and the “project deliverables” have been all but invisible … until now.
The purpose of this blog is to document my review of decisions made in 2007 and report on the decisions that will ground the rebuild of Moving Image Review Online in Greenstone 2. Publication is expected by January 2012.
Teeter Bibber, Digital Project Developer and Standards Coordinator for “Northeast Historic Film’s Moving Image Review Online”.
Karan Sheldon, co-founder of Northeast Historic Film, was the Project Director.