The Challenge of Archival Film: An Islandora Solution for Big Video

This paper presents the MIRC Digital Video Repository (MIRC-DVR, http://mirc.sc.edu), an Islandora solution to the problem of “big video” planned and implemented by Moving Image Research Collections at the University of South Carolina in collaboration with Discovery Garden. We will sketch the decision-making process that led us to adopt an open repository solution, chart the development of the current MIRC-DVR content model and user interface(s), and discuss how the repository accommodates the complex workflows of a major film archive.