Accessible Digital Video Libraries for Humans and Machines

Drew Gordon - Data Curator, Databrary Project - NYU

drew@databrary.org

Are our digital video collections machine-readable?

2026

2016

Video In the DPLA

• 27,099 moving image items (Feb 2016)
• 17 different providers, 51 different institutions
• Standardized search, all in one place

Historical GIFs

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Challenges to Automated Access to Video Found in the DPLA

• Not able to store derivatives locally
• Few direct URLs to video resources in metadata
• Diversity of delivery platforms at host sites

Looking Ahead

• Distributed, interoperable collections
• More accessible to machines from where they already are
• Allow services from outside to connect to them

Solutions

• Open standards
  • HTML 5 <video> element
  • schema.org VideoObject properties
• Provide URL to file in metadata/API

Thank You!