This ‘Ithaka Case Studies in Sustainability’ report offers a composite profile of sustainability factors, resulting from a study of 12 academic and cultural content digital initiatives. Focusing on sustainability, defined in the report as “the ability to generate or gain access to the resources – financial or otherwise – needed to protect and increase the value of the content or …
The PrestoSpace Data Model
Een kort overzicht (2 pagina’s) van het metadatamodel, ontwikkeld in het Europese audiovisuele conserveringsproject PRESTOSPACE. Het model is gebaseerd op MPEG-7 en P/Meta en bevat extra extensies die binnen PS werden gedefinieerd. Het document verwijst naar de complete beschrijving van het model. Een helder beknopte uitleg van het PRESTOSPACE datamodel.
Report on Trusted Digital Repositories
Contents: Introduction Concept of Trust Approaches to Trust Questionnaire Standards Standard and Certification References Bibliography Appendix 1. Dit rapport geeft een beschrijving van het onderwerp “betrouwbaarheid” vanuit verschillende disciplines, in relatie tot de eisen die moeten worden gesteld aan digitale repositories. Deze deliverable van het Europese project CASPAR biedt een overzicht van elementen …
Embedding metadata in digital audio files
This “Guideline for Federal Agency Use of Broadcast Wave Files” presents a minimal set of embedded metadata for historical and cultural heritage digital audio reformate. It defines levels of metadata to be embedded in digitial audio files. The context for the guideline is described in the consultant’s assessment report . Information concerning the constraints imposed by wave existing metadata …
JISC Project Report: Digitisation Programme Digital Preservation Study
In 2009, DPC with University of London Computer Centre and Portico carried out an extensive analysis for the JISC Digitisation Programme, examining the projects funded through this programme and assessing their plans for access beyond the existence of their project grants. A scaled down version of the report with analysis is published here and a number of case studies have …
Accessing and managing file-based born digital video
This presentation given at the 2009 AMIA conference, offers a strategy and workflow for accessioning and managing file-based digital video (video that is recorded digitally at its point of creation, not Digital Betacam tapes or files that have been digitized from analog media such as U‐matic or Betacam SP). It describes how to take advantage of existing embedded technical and …