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 …
I want to preserve audiovisual content. How do I get started?
The basic steps for planning, funding, and carrying out a preservation project are: make a map of the collection, and sort contents into groups according to type and condition; arrange the groups in priority order according to the urgency of their preservation needsd (triage); work out what needs to be done for each group: a preservation strategy; and state exactly how the work will be …