Media archives interest group
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
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!
Content types:
Concept
Video
Image
Document
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
