Projects

The Cloud Innovation Lab is developing a new media archivist tool in collaboration with Special Collections & University Archives (SCUA) to improve how archival audiovideo collections are processed, described, and prepared for access. Video archives present a distinct challenge for archivists. Unlike text-based materials, identifying the people, topics, events, and… Read More

The Vanderbilt University Libraries’ Vanderbilt Cloud Innovation Lab (VCIL) has released VAST, an open-source tool designed to help archives make large video collections more accessible to researchers and the public. VAST (Video Autolabeling and Segmenting Tool) grew out of VCIL’s work with the Vanderbilt Television News Archive. Read More