Bibliotecario registró 800.000 horas de noticias de más de 35 años, vasto archivo de hojas

NBC PhiladelphiaMarion Marguerite Stokes, 83, died Friday from pulmonary disease at his home in Rittenhouse Square. His collection of 140,000 VHS recordings of local and national news programs can soon be made publicly available in a digital format, Busquedo.By Queen Musa, NBCPhiladelphia.comPhiladelphia librarian and defender of social justice Marion Marguerite Stokes spent 35 years of his life Almost every minute of each program in each network of local and national news on VHS and Beta Max of recording tapes.Now, its commitment to follow up news on television may result in a collection of more than 800,000 hours of historical news.Son of Stokes, Michael Metelits says that the creation of the huge collection was an often arduous task and dominating the life of his mother, who died of lung disease in December 2012.  But despite criticism from observers, Stokes maintained that the time which was operating up to 20 recorders at the same time, Exchange a tape of 6 hours after another, would not be in vain."I don't think anyone escaped to help with this process. Like "you can imagine a process like this, only dominates family life and is as of structures pretty much everything else goes in, said Metelits."But it was really a kind of uncompromising person; She knew what I wanted and this was very important for her."In an effort to honor the life's work of his mother, Metelits has partnered with the company's digital archive The Internet Archive nonprofit hoping to convert collection Stokes 140,000 video cassette tape to a digital file, Busquedo that would make available to the public via the Internet.Director of the TV on the Internet file archive Roger Macdonald said Stokes file can be a very useful addition to the growing company digital collection of news."If we are able to scan with this success, will open a larger window on local and national news, which is unprecedented," said Macdonald. "In the Internet Archive, which we are working to save and open for research purposes American television news and we have been recording since the end of the year 2000; But the addition of this collection would extend to our archive back three decades.Metelits had recovered a collection of cassettes of video of his mother when she died. Shortly thereafter, he sought the Internet Archive and began the process of preservation of the tapes.Many of the tapes were stored in the former home of Stokes in Boston, where she had lived for almost 8 years, or in one of the three warehouses in Warminster, PA. Thus, the first step for Metelits was to get all the tapes in a place, to keep them organized and packaged to send.NBCPhiladelphiaRecordings Marion Marguerite Stokes boxes filled with boxes stacked inside containers.A full year to gather all the videotapes in a storage unit and organize them by date of recording took Metelits and a group of relatives and friends of the family. Finally, last Friday, the collection was sent from a Philadelphia storage unit offices in San Francisco, California Internet Archive. The shipping cost was approximately $16,000, but it is a cost that metelits says it was well worth the effort it."It has been hard work, but we are delighted there is an institution like the Internet Archive which is able to accept them and going to do something with them that my mother approved in reality," he said.According to Metelits, impulse of his mother to record the news began with its observation of the news coverage about the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 and the emergence of CNN as a news channel 24 hours. Stokes was interested in documenting the way in which the coverage of several news networks could change over time. When people questioned his dedication to the peculiar hobby, Metelits says Stokes eventually ceased to struggle to explain their motives and settled in saying, "I'm archiving. Leave it at that."Metelits had described Stokes as a friendly but firm woman who had much worried about social causes and had enjoyed picking up all sorts of things. In the 1960's, Stokes took part in several civil rights marches, including the March to integrate Girard College in 1965 and produced what was then considered an innovative show debate called entrance, which aired on the station WCAU channel then.In addition to his large collection of video cassette recordings, Metelits says that his mother owned a collection of countless boxes of newspapers, some 192 Macintosh computers (in their original boxes) and a collection of toys and is currently working to find private Dolls House collectors.MacDonald said digitizing the collection video will be almost as expensive and time-consuming as Stokes original process, so it may take years before the collection is actually available to the public in digital form. For now, the organization focuses on the fundraising and awareness."We've had 10-15 need estimates covers running simultaneously, and one or two people the manning and entering the metadata of dates and times, but we really are not sure how many people or how many years it will take", said Macdonald. "The Stokes family contributed to the costs of transport and will make an initial contribution of Stokes farm to start the scanning process. Let's see so that others know about this remarkable collection and our intent that it be available for research and I hope that they will be willing to contribute.Metelits said he believes that his mother would be proud of the digitization project."He faced some opposition, not only from the members of his family who thought it was strange, but many other people about how worthwhile this project was, if ever it would be something, if someone ever would be useful," he said. "Then, I think she would feel a great deal of vindication in the interest that has been shown in this file.