Martha Diaz, Paley Center, Summer 2014, NEH
My internship at the Paley Center for media focused on processing 30 episodes of Ralph McDaniels' Video Music Box collection. Video Music Box for the past 30 years has provided a home for emerging and established hip-hop artists to showcase their work. I worked mostly with 3/4" U-matic tapes. There were a few moldy tapes that I could not process. I learned how to archive a collection from beginning to end; selection and acquistion process, registration and cataloguing, cleaning, digitizing and reformatting, and transcribing and uploading content to the server and database.
