Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 2.1 The content perspective 2.2 The practitioner perspective 3. Evaluation Methodology 3.1 Audiovisual archive setting 3.2 Query definitions 3.3 Retrieval data sources 3.4 Video retrieval tasks 4. Experimental Setup 4.1 Video retrieval experiments 4.2 Video search engine implementations 5. Results 5.1 Experiment 1: 3×3 shot retrieval 5.2 Experiment 2: 3×3 program retrieval 5.3 Experiment …
A Computational Approach to Content-based Retrieval of Folk Song Melodies
Contents: 1 Introduction 2 Collaboration Perspectives for Folk Song Research and Music Information Retrieval 3 A Manual Annotation System for Folk Song Similarity 4 The Study of Melodic Similarity using Global Melody Feature Sets 5 On Measuring Musical Style—The Case of Some Disputed Organ Fugues in the J.S. Bach (BWV) Catalog 6 Musical Models for Folk Song Melody Alignment 7 …
A Study of Embedded Metadata Support in Audio Recording Software
Contents: Executive Summary Introduction Test Description Test Results Conclusions and Discussion. This short report subtitled “summary findings and conclusions” presents the results of a study undertaken by the ARSC Technical Committee on the persistence and integrity of embedded metadata in digital audio files over time. The study was concerned with two things in particular, what happens to the metadata when …
Embedding Metadata in Digital Audio Files v.2
This is a revision of the ‘Guideline for Federal Agency Use of Broadcast Wave Files’, initially published in September 2009. It defines levels of metadata to be embedded in digital audio files and recommends actions cocerning data elements in the BEXT chunk established as part of the Broadcat WAVE (BFW) file specification by the European Broadcast Union. The background documents …
Audio Analog-to-Digital Converter Performance Specification and Test Method
This document specifies a set of metrics and methods pertaining to the performance of the audio analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) used in preservation reformatting workflows. The metrics specified in the guideline pertain to the production of files using the highest quality ADC devices. It is the central element within the larger topic of audio digitisation system performance, which also includes the …
Audiovisual Citation Guidelines
These guidelines, launched March 2013, encourage best practice in citing any kind of audiovisual items. They were produced by a project based at the British University Film and Video Council, based on an international study of citation requirements and best practice. The guidelines cover: film; television programmes; radio programmes; audio recordings; DVD extras; clips; trailers; adverts; idents; non-broadcast, amateur and archive …