As a professional archivist and the founder of a business partly dedicated to the digital preservation of moving images (videos, home movies), I can recommend to you and your administrators that you investigate the use of Omeka.org as a place to host and display your video collection. It is a project primarily sponsored by George Mason University's Center for History and New Media. It provides an easy-to-use, professionally designed interface that meets most archival standards. For example, it allows you to embed metadata according to Dublin Core standards in each of your videos.
Take a look at the web site here: http://omeka.org/ And even if you decide that Omeka is not for you, it might be worth giving the folks at GMU a call and asking your questions to them. Rob Hoffman Priceless Photo Preservation Ann Arbor, MI VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
