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- 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
Digitization
There is a lot of discussion about digitization and the tradeoffs of an uncompressed format vs a lossless format.
Other communities interested in digitization and preservation include:
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Content models
WGBH OpenVault model
WGBH has created a very atomistic content model to support their rich media archives repository. !WGBH Content Model Structure|thumbnail,width=32,height=32!
Content types:
Delivery
There are three basic approaches to delivering video files: progressive download, rtsp/rtmp streaming, and progressive download with HTTP range requests. Many media repositories are currently using Fedora redirect datastreams to reference content hosted on dedicated media servers (either locally, on a CDN, etc). The obvious advantages here are optimized delivery of media content and the ability to offload processing and storage to external processes. The biggest disadvantages are loss of integrated authn/authz from Fedora and additional effort for allowing Fedora to manage those assets.
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