This Digital Preservation Case Note describes an audio digitization project at the British Library Sound Archives, funded by the JISC. Besides providing a brief overview of the project goals and approach taken, it focuses in particular on the BL ARC decision to implement METS for metadata management. This brief case study is especially useful for bringing attention to a large …
Contents: 1.0 Background 2.0 Discovering and acquiring films 3.0 Film and video digitization 4.0 Website Infrastructure 5.0 Metadata 6.0 Preservation 7.0 Advertising and Outreach 8.0 Evaluation 9.0 Appendices and links 10. Works cited and bibliography This guide describes how the Folkstreams project selects, acquires, digitizes and provides access to documentary films about American folk or roots cultures. It addresses selection …
This is a FIAF technical commission technical recommendation on the deposit and acquisition of D-cinema elements for long term preservation and access. It provides a concise description of the key concepts of digital distribution and presents a simple specification for the archival deposit of digital cinema works. Current standards for digital cinema are produced by the Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI), …
This resource presents best practice guidelines for creating a colloborative organisation whose primary goal is the preservation of local community audiovisual heritage. It was produced by one such organisation, the Observatori d’Arxius i Televisions Locals which was formed by four archive and local television organisations in Catalonia and Andorra. Based on their successful approach, this publication proposes recommended objectives, scope, …
Contents: Context Key figures of results Survey Analysis Presentation 1. Characterization of the community 2. Legal Aspect 3. Management of Web archiving program Conclusion In het kader van het LiWA project is in december 2010 een enquête gehouden onder 364 instellingen in 37 Europese landen om te inventariseren welke organisaties aan een webarchief bouwen en om een actueel beeld te …
Contents: 1 Introduction to Europeana 2 From ESE to EDM 3 Design Principles of EDM 3.1 W3C Standards and Semantic Web 3.2 &ldquo Object Reuse & Exchange&rdquo framework 3.3 EDM and Linked Open Data 3.4 Abstraction of relevant semantic relationships 4 EDM and community specific representation schemas 5 Object-centric and Event-centric approach 6 Validation and Potential of EDM 7 Literature …
