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 …
Warm pleidooi van de auteurs voor een strategie voor de cultureel erfgoedsector om metadata en content via een open benadering beschikbaar te stellen. Om te beginnen schetsen zij aan de hand van het Open Beelden-platform hoe het aanbieden van materiaal onder een open licentie een voor erfgoedinstellingen meetbaar meerwaarde oplevert. Met dit audiovisuele platform hebben o.a. ImagineIC, VPRO, NIMK en …
Contents: 1 Introduction 2 Metadata and the Semantic Web 3 Provenance 4 Metadata Provenance 5 Metadata Provenance in Europeana 6 Discussion References This thesis gives an overview on various ways and best-practices to handle metadata provenance in the Semantic Web. First it is explained what provenance metadata is and how it can be represented in RDF. In chapter 3, the …
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Project overview 3. Related work 4. Audiovisual content ingestion and modeling: METS ingestion negotiation for FC audiovisual content model 5. MediaMosa platform as a transcoding and delivery service 6. Fedora Commons and Mediamosa integration 7. Conclusions 8. References The article describes the integrated adoption of Fedora Commons repository, usually adopted in a preservation context, and MediaMosa …
Contents: Firstly, what are checksums for? Checksums within Audiovisual Data: DV Tape and DIF Block Parity Data – MPEG and CRC Checks – Lossless FLAC and MD5 Signatures Codec Independent Implementations of Frame Based Checksums Whole-File Checksum plus framemd5: Determining Extent and Relevance of Digital Change – Verifying Lossless Transcoding – Under Development in Summary This paper, whose subtitle is …
Contents: 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 DAR Architecture 4 A Case Study for application integration: DAR Books 5 The life cycle of a digital document 6 DAR and scalability 7 Conclusions and Future work References The Digital Assets Repository (DAR) is an Institutional Repository developed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina to manage the full lifecycle of a digital asset. The …
