CS Colloquium

Collection, Cataloging, Preservation, Access and Education using Video testimonies of Holocaust and other genocide survivors at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute
Speaker: Sam Gustman, USC Shoah Foundation
Host: Prof. Ellis HorowitzAbstract:
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute was originally a non-profit founded by Steven Spielberg in 1994 called the Shoah Foundation. In 2006, the archives and staff became a part of USC. The technology for collecting, cataloging, indexing, digitally preserving, accessing and educating at the Institute will be discussed. This includes methodology for making over 100,000 hours of video available online and the infrastructure necessary to preserve the testimonies.Biography:
Sam Gustman has been Chief Technology Officer of the Shoah Foundation since 1994 and was responsible for overseeing the 2006 move of the Foundation's archives to USC. As CTO of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, Gustman ensures the archive's accessibility for academic and research communities at USC and around the world. He is responsible for the operation, preservation, and cataloging of the Institute's 105,000 hours of video testimony, the 8 petabyte digital video preservation effort, and 135-terabyte digital library effort, one of the largest public video databases in the world. His office offers technical support for universities and organizations that subscribe to the Institute's Visual History Archive. Gustman has sixteen years of leadership experience in information technology, and is the inventor of 11 patents on digital library technology for the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. He has also been the primary investigator on National Science Foundation research projects with a cumulative funding total of more than $8 million. Gustman has a bachelor of science in engineering, with a focus in computer engineering, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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