The MSU Lossless Video Codec is a video codec developed by the Graphics & Media Lab Video Group of Moscow State University. The aim of development was producing lossless video at very high rate of compression. MSU currently has the second best compression ratio (behind YULS) when compared to many other lossless video codecs. The latest version, 1.2, was released …
Putting Hybrid Cultural Data on the Semantic Web
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Converting Structured Data to RDF 3. Adding Text Relations – txt2rdf 4. Query Experiments 5. Conclusions References This paper explains how to augment structured data with “facts” automatically extracted from free text. This is done via a pipeline, txt2rdf, which takes in plain text at one end and pumps out RDF triples at the other. These …
Foundations of a Disaster Recovery Plan for the Shared Digital Repository
Contents: Executive Summary Acknowledgements Introduction HathiTrust’s Disaster Recovery Strategies Scenario 1: Hardware Failure or Obsolescence and Data Loss Scenario 2: Network Configuration Errors Scenario 3: Network Security and External Attacks Scenario 4: Format Obsolescence Scenario 5: Core Utility and/or Building Failure Scenario 6: Software Failure or Obsolescence Scenario 7: Operator Error Scenario 8: Physical Security Breach Scenario 9: Natural or …
Towards Affordable Disclosure of Spoken Heritage Archives
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. From spoken-word archive to multimedia information portal 3. Automatic annotation using automatic speech recognition 4. The Buchenwald user interface 5. Discussion and conclusion References This paper presents and discusses ongoing work aiming at affordable disclosure of real-world spoken heritage archives in general, and in particular of a collection of recorded video interviews with Dutch survivors of …
Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects (Web version)
Contents: Publication Information Introduction to the Second Edition Introduction to the First Edition 1. Background 2. Key Digital Principles 3. Metadata 4. Unique and Persistent Identifiers 5. Signal Extraction from Original Carriers 6. Preservation Target Formats and Systems 7. Small Scale Approaches to Digital Storage Systems 8. Optical Discs 9. Partnerships, Project Planning and Resources References. These extensive guidelines, subtitled …
Owned? Legal terms of video hosting services compared
Deze blogbijdrage presenteert van een aantal online video hosting services de rechten waar een ‘uploader’ of content provider, als rechthebbende van de betreffende content, vanaf moet zien om van de dienst gebruik te kunnen maken. De blogger heeft met name gekeken naar: Blip.tv , Dailymotion , Flickr video , Kyte.tv , LiveVideo , Vimeo en YouTube. Zijn conclusie, na een …


