Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects (web edition)

These extensive guidelines cover the entire spectrum of issues involved in migrating analogue audio carriers to digital files and managing those files in an OAIS compliant repository. It recommends formats, metadata standards, signal extraction techniques, and includes a chapter on how a small scale digital repository meeting the requirements of an OAIS might be established and managed. Audio carriers addressed …

What? So What?: The next generation JHOVE2 architecture for format-aware characterization

This article introduces the JHOVE2 format characterization tool, comparing it with its predecessor JHOVE, the first characterization framework developed and used by international digital library programs and preservation repositories. Besides going into JHOVE2 development and specifications, it explains why characterization is essential in digital preservation workflows and emphasizes the addition of an assessment functionality which allows the repository to determine …

Extending Domain-Specific Resources to Enable Semantic Access to Cultural Heritage Data

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 2.1. Semantic Web Technologies in the Cultural Heritage Domain 2.2. Information Extraction 3. A Case Study: Tate Online 3.1. Users’ Requirements for Semantic Search 3.2. Prototype Development 4. Semantic Annotation 4.1. Information Sources 4.2. Recognising Imperfections in the Information 4.3. Extending Pre-Existing Sources with Information Extraction 5. Evaluation 5.1. Evaluating Semantic Annotation 5.2. Semantic …

Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects (Web version)

Contents: Publication Information Introduction to the Second Edition Introduction to the First Edition 1. Background 2. Key Digital Principles 3. Metadata 4. Unique and Persistent Identifiers 5. Signal Extraction from Original Carriers 6. Preservation Target Formats and Systems 7. Small Scale Approaches to Digital Storage Systems 8. Optical Discs 9. Partnerships, Project Planning and Resources References. These extensive guidelines, subtitled …

Data Seal of Approval

Contents: Home Assessment Community News & Events Tool Log in Information Contact Affiliated websites Deze website is opgericht om onderzoeksinstituten te instrueren die hun onderzoeksdata duurzaam willen archiveren. Een onderzoeksinstituut kan het Data Seal of Approval (DSA) verkrijgen als de data in de betreffende repository voldoen aan de 16 richtlijnen waar de audit (assessment) procedure uit bestaat. In het bestuur …

Metadata and Semantics in Digital Object Collections: A Case-Study on CIDOC-CRM and Dublin Core and a Prototype Implementation

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Digital Repository Systems for Cultural Heritage 3. From Metadata to Ontologies 4. Towards a Semantic Enrichment of CIDOC-CRM 5. Bringing Dublin Core to the Semantic Web 6. A Prototype Implementation 7. Conclusions De auteurs bespreken twee metadata standaarden die in de cultureel erfgoedsector veel gebruikt worden voor de ontsluiting van digitale collecties: CIDOC-CRM en Dublin Core. …