Capturing moving images online

Abstract

‘Archive Live’, the online catalogue from Scottish Screen Archive, brings the film and video material in Scotland’s National Moving Image Collection to life on the web. Designed to service the general public and the commercial programme maker, the catalogue is an essential reference tool, offering detailed information about moving images from 1895 to the present day. This article describes the planning and decision-making processes involved in actually getting the catalogue online, and provides a look at cataloguing and indexing practice in a film archive.