This recorded webinar poses several questions and answers on the importance of best practices and standards in the exchange of video assets across a diverse range of organisations within the media industry. How are assets and media files exposed, exchanged, compressed, adopted? How is metadata used in order to ensure information flow and reuse of data? How are media files …
Jisc Digital Media Infokit
This Jisc Digital Media Infokit provides a simple outline of what needs to be taken into account when undertaking more complex digitisation, offering technical advice relating to the digitisation and care of specific media formats; and advice on equipment. It is aimed at all levels of staff involved in high-level digitisation (HLD) with sections dedicated to addressing managerial and project …
AMIA 2015 Conference Presentations
Speaker presentations are posted as they are received. The following presentations are available for downloading: Advocacy: Personal Advocacy – The Power of One Benedict Olgado, University of the Philippines Diliman, Ray Edmondson, Archive Associates Pty Ltd, Débora Butruce, Mnemosine Ltd, Chalida Uabumrungjit, Thai Film Archive Competency-Based Frameworks for Moving Image Archiving Education Kelle Anzalone, Mission Hills High School, Karen Gracy, Kent State University, Dino Everett, Hugh …
Digital Preservation: Online Resources
If you are new to the world of digital preservation, you may be feeling overwhelmed by the multitude of technical terms and professional practices to contend with, and the fact that standards never seem to stay in place for very long. Fortunately, there are many resources related to digital preservation available on the internet. Unfortunately, the large amount of websites, …
Taking a Long-term Perspective – Maintaining Digital Assets by Managing their Evolving Digital Ecosystems
As digital content and its related metadata are generated and used across different phases of the information lifecycle, and in a continually evolving digital environment, the concept of a fixed and stable ‘final’ version that needs to be preserved becomes less appropriate. As well as dealing with technological change and obsolescence, long-term sustainability requires us to address changes in context. …
BIBFRAME AV Assessment: Technical, Structural, and Preservation Metadata
The report was prepared by Kara Van Malssen and Bertram Lyons of AVPreserve under contract to the Library of Congress. The report studies the state of technical, structural, and preservation metadata for audiovisual resources in the bibliographic environment. This paper makes recommendations about the extent to which BIBFRAME might support the expression of this type of information and where other metadata standards could be used. Because audiovisual …