This article’s subtitle is ‘Snapshots from the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI)’. The author presents an overview of decisions the initiative’s Audio-Visual Working Group has made concerning format choices and the handling of embedded metadata for audio and moving image files. It describes its choice of WAVE/BWF formats for audio and its approach to embedding metadata in these formats. …
This short document (11 pages) describes a phenomenon knows as a ‘Digital Audio Interstitial Error’ which occurs when a digital audio stream is being written to disc. It makes the case that such an error is more prevalent than spoken of in the preservation community and that no tool exists to properly detect it at present. It also suggests a …
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Resource Versioning 3. The Memento Framework 4. Memento Resource Versioning 5. Memento Resource Versioning and Linked Data 6. The DBpedia Demonstrator 7. Related Work 8. Conclusions 9. Acknowledgements 10. References Appendix A. An RDF/XML Timemap Het Memento project ontwikkelt een manier om met behulp van het HTTP protocol een webarchief op te bouwen waarin de gebruiker …
Contents: 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Approach 4 Prototype Application 5 Conclusion and Future Work Acknowledgments References Preserveren van digitale audiovisuele content houdt o.a. in dat gezorgd moet worden voor duurzame toegankelijkheid. Dit kan betekenen dat niet alleen de bestanden, maar ook de betrokken metadata af en toe moeten migreren naar een meer courant metadatamodel. Het correct kunnen mappen …
Contents: Executive Summary 1. Background 2. OAIS Reference Model and Terms 3. Preservation Repository Design 4. Core Archival Information Package Structure 5. PDPTV Archival Information Package Structure 6. PDPTV Submission Information Packages 7. PDPTV Archival Information Package Generation and Metadata Plan 8. Content Transfer to the Library of Congress 9. Summary 10. Remaining Work 11. Acknowledgements Appendix 1 Glossary and …
Contents: New Preservation Practices for Television Archives Project Goals Deliverables and Activities Impact and Contributions Appendices. This final report presents the outcomes of the Preserving Digital Public Television Project, funded by the the NDIIPP at the Library of Congress. After providing some context on the need for the project it goes on to detail its goals and successes. This final …
