Welcome to PBCore, the metadata standard for audiovisual media developed by the public broadcasting community. This site was recently re-designed for the release of PBCore 2.0. Please join our community and leave us feedback!
PBCore 2.0
Released January 2011! Handout (PDF)
Documentation
hierarchy, classes, containers…
Schema
xsd, namespace…
Elements
xml tags, definitions, vocabularies…
News
- PBCore at “Describing Moving Images” Workshop September 28, 2011
Yesterday I presented PBCore at a workshop organized by Northeast Historic Film on “Describing Moving Images.” PBCore was just one part of a day filled with FRBR, DACS and authority control discussions. Students were especially interested to learn about cataloging collections in PBCore and how to relate one PBCore record to another. My slides are [...]
- New listserv for PBCore: Google Group PBCore-Talk July 25, 2011
Check out the new Google group, PBCore Talk ! **The PBCore listserv will be discontinued on July 31, 2011 in order to migrate to a free and open platform.** PBCore Talk web address: http://groups.google.com/group/pbcore-talk PBCore Talk email address: pbcore-talk@googlegroups.com
- PBCore on GitHub is now public March 31, 2011
In the interests of community, transparency and sustainability, the PBCore team has decided to make the PBCore 2.0 respository on GitHub a public repository. It is a bit unusual to approach a metadata standard like it were an open source application, but we found GitHub to be helpful in our process for developing PBCore 2.0 [...]
- PBCore presentation at IMA 2011 March 25, 2011
I presented PBCore 2.0 as part of a panel on collaboration at the IMA 22011 conference in Austin, Texas. The panel was mostly focused on case studies of collaboration — including examples between radio & print, amongst television & the arts community, and between media makers. PBCore is more of an enabling technology than an [...]
- Introducing PBCore 2.0 February 17, 2011
PBCore is a metadata standard designed to describe media, both digital and analog. More importantly, it was designed for the Internet and for the kinds of software applications we now use to manage, access, and share media.
