Media
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Archives
The media archives solution community is aimed at bringing together people from different communities to work toward defining the set of software tools that would be useful to digital audio and moving image archives, identify what is already available, and to work toward securing the resources to fill in the rest.
- Use Cases: What have others done?
- Blue Sky: What would we like to have if we had unlimited resources?
Challenge Areas
These are areas of difficulty that we are all facing together. For each of these topics, there are at least a handful of people who are actively working to reduce these challenges to non-issues. Are you one of those people? If you are, make sure we all know about your work, and make sure it's reflected here on the wiki.
- Workflows
- Cataloging
- Preservation
- Digitization
- Encoding + Processing
- Metadata + Controlled Vocabularies
- Asset formats and delivery - streaming vs progressive download, quicktime vs flash
- Content Modeling and the CMA
- Managing Large Files
- Frontends, annotation environments, etc
Hot Topics
Resources
Archives with significant media content
- WGBH Media Library and Archives | http://openvault.wgbh.org/
- Jewish Women's Archive | http://jwa.org
- Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian | http://www.spokenword.ac.uk/
- Indiana University Digital Library Program | http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/
- Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology at the University of Alberta
- SAFIR at University of York | http://music.york.ac.uk/atyork/resources/archives.php