YouTube versus the national film and sound archive: Which is the more useful resource for historians of Australian television?

McKee, A

YouTube versus the national film and sound archive: Which is the more useful resource for historians of Australian television?

McKee, A

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Television and New Media, 2011, 12 (2), pp. 154 - 173
Issue Date:: 2011-03-01

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dc.contributor.author	McKee, A https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0577-2061	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-03-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Television and New Media, 2011, 12 (2), pp. 154 - 173	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1527-4764	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/29202
dc.description.abstract	This article compares YouTube and the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) as resources for television historians interested in viewing old Australian television programs. The author searched for seventeen important television programs, identified in a previous research project, to compare what was available in the two archives and how easy it was to find. The analysis focused on differences in curatorial practices of accessioning and cataloguing. NFSA is stronger in current affairs and older programs, while YouTube is stronger in game shows and lifestyle programs. YouTube is stronger than the NFSA on "human interest" material-births, marriages, and deaths. YouTube accessioning more strongly accords with popular histories of Australian television. Both NFSA and YouTube offer complete episodes of programs, while YouTube also offers many short clips of "moments." YouTube has more surprising pieces of rare ephemera. YouTube cataloguing is more reliable than that of the NFSA, with fewer broken links. The YouTube metadata can be searched more intuitively. The NFSA generally provides more useful reference information about production and broadcast dates. © 2011 Sage Publications.	en_US
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0879596
dc.relation.ispartof	Television and New Media	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/1527476410365707	en_US
dc.title	YouTube versus the national film and sound archive: Which is the more useful resource for historians of Australian television?	en_US
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Abstract:

This article compares YouTube and the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) as resources for television historians interested in viewing old Australian television programs. The author searched for seventeen important television programs, identified in a previous research project, to compare what was available in the two archives and how easy it was to find. The analysis focused on differences in curatorial practices of accessioning and cataloguing. NFSA is stronger in current affairs and older programs, while YouTube is stronger in game shows and lifestyle programs. YouTube is stronger than the NFSA on "human interest" material-births, marriages, and deaths. YouTube accessioning more strongly accords with popular histories of Australian television. Both NFSA and YouTube offer complete episodes of programs, while YouTube also offers many short clips of "moments." YouTube has more surprising pieces of rare ephemera. YouTube cataloguing is more reliable than that of the NFSA, with fewer broken links. The YouTube metadata can be searched more intuitively. The NFSA generally provides more useful reference information about production and broadcast dates. © 2011 Sage Publications.

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