This report presents the proposals and subsequent discussions from the Home Movie Digitization & Access Summit held at the Library of Congress’s Packard Campus in September 2010.
The summit consisted of two days of presentations, discussions and screenings. The questions posed to the attendees were: “What would be needed (to do, have, spend, work around, etc.) in order to undertake a mass digitization project involving home movies and video from public and private collections online for free public access? Secondly, what impact would the availability of these collections have on their use and analysis?” Topics addressed include cataloging and description (including such topics as the development of a home movie taxonomy, metadata elements, functional requirements, crowdsourcing and tagging); legal and ethical issues; digitization and online access, including workflow scenarios; serving scholarly and professional users of home movies; and the role of film collectors and the home movie market.