The Bodleian and Vatican team up to present their collections to the world

What an incredible gift to the world.
Thank you
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Gaumont Path�Archives moves to HD

Gaumont Path�Archives moves to HD

Gaumont Pathé Archives moves to HD with Opsomai. Since 2009, Gaumont Pathé Archives has relied on Opsomai's Opsis Media software for the conservation and the on-line distribution of its 15.000 hours of video archives. In 2013, Gaumont Pathé Archives acquired a 2K scanner in order to digitize again its films, and asked Opsomai to design a technical platform for archiving and transcoding these new HD formats. Thanks to this new platform, which is going to be installed in the coming months, Gaumont Pathé Archives will propose the on-line delivery of HD formats as soon as Q2 2014.

Blog | The Noun Project, Cultural Heritage Symbols

Blog | The Noun Project, Cultural Heritage Symbols

Check out these  icons. I especially like the one for digital object.

Imaging DNA — Technology and technique defining new views of image creation.

Great Blog on image capture. Check it out

Imaging DNA — Technology and technique defining new views of image creation.

PDF/A format

This is one person's blog about her experience as a DAS student in the Digital Archives Specialist certificate program that Society of American Archivists is offering.  I found this one post particularly helpful and wanted to share it. Also think the certificate program  looks quite solid.  Check it out
Diary of a DAS Student

CINCH - Digital Preservation ... Easier!

CINCH - Digital Preservation ... Easier!

Introduction to CINCH - YouTube
A short tutorial that introduces CINCH, the Capture, INgest, CHecksum tool developed by the State Library of North Carolina to help libraries and archives collect and process born-digital files on the internet in accordance with digital preservation best practices. For more information, visit http://cinch.nclive.org/. 
Thanks to Peter Kurilecz on the A&A list.,  Archivist and great aggregator of archivist information.

Web Seminars | DuraSpace - Managing Preserving Audio & Video Digital Media

Good information to be had here about Audio and Video online collections.

Webinar 1: The Big Picture: Preserving Audio & Video Digital Media, May 16, 2012

Webinar 2: Creating Access to Audio & Video Digital Media: The Variations on Video Project & the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, June 6, 2012

Webinar 3: Describing Audio & Video Digital Media with Metadata, June 13, 2012

Web Seminars | DuraSpace

Metadata Deluxe / Top 10 List of Embedded Metadata Properties

Here is a great resource from the Embedded Metadata work group of the Visual Resources Association.  Its crosswalks all the common fields in most web and photo software tools: Check it out!

Metadata Deluxe / Top 10 List of Embedded Metadata Properties

Viewshare: Up Close and Personal With Your Digital Treasures

Very interesting blog post on what looks tobe a very useful tool for cultural collections needing ways to display their items.
Viewshare: Up Close and Personal With Your Digital Treasures

AIMS: Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship

The new challenge, Born-Digital. Here is a good review of best practices for all those, think public document archives, fine art collections and historical archives, responsible fore the care and protection of such articles.

AIMS: Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship

Melissa Terras' Blog: Digitisation Studio Setup

Thanks to Simon Tanner and Melissa Terras for this succinct but complete description of a digital studio set up. I think you will find it very helpful.

Melissa Terras' Blog: Digitisation Studio Setup

NARAtions » National Archives Digitization Tools Now on GitHub

Just want to alert you to a great blog from the National Archives.  This post in particular discusses some digitisation tool that they are developing and making available. Check it out: NARAtions » National Archives Digitization Tools Now on GitHub

Want to introduce a great blog and source of information.

I will let them describe their Blog

HangingTogether is a place where some of the staff atOCLC Research, particularly those of us who support the OCLC Research Library Partnership, can talk about the intersections we see happening between these different types of institutions. We visit partners, go to conferences, and take note of the interesting things we see along the way. Stop in, stay awhile, and hang out.

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin

Check it out
hangingtogether.org

Saving the Smithsonian’s Web

Saving the Smithsonian’s Web

Detailed description of how the Smithsonian is archiving its web material, especially interesting in what they are preserving.

The Signal: Digital Preservation

The Signal: Digital Preservation

The Library of Congress has announced a cool new open-source web application called Recollection that allows easy creation of new interfaces for looking at cultural heritage collections in new and exciting ways. Check it out!

BPOC Express: Shared Digital Asset Management in a private cloud in under 6 months | Balboa Park

BPOC Express: Shared Digital Asset Management in a private cloud in under 6 months.

Check out the great work Balboa Park in San Diego has done in developing a collaborative DAM in this write up which they did.


BPOC Express: Shared Digital Asset Management in a private cloud in under 6 months | Balboa Park:
Overview

‪Preserving One Copy of Every Book Ever Published‬‏ - YouTube

Check out this news article on Brewster Kahle. Not only is he a cool dude there are great pictures of the book scanner.

‪Preserving One Copy of Every Book Ever Published‬‏ - YouTube

More Managing that Metadata

Many have talked about embedding data in the digital file for some time. TIFF actually stands for Tagged Image File Format. Many pieces of hardware already use that capability to embed data in the file for other hardware to use to interpret the file's visual data. Now people can also do so, with almost as much ease.  Two groups continue to work on this the IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) and the VRA (Visual Reource Association).

The VRA's embedded Metadata Working Group has created a VRA metadata panel for Adobe's products, which uses the VRA core metadata structure, a similar though more complex than Dublin Core structure.

The IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group has issued a Manifesto encouraging this effort in May 2011.

Photographers, film makers, videographers, illustrators, publishers, advertisers, designers, art directors, picture editors, librarians and curators all share the same problem: struggling to track rapidly expanding collections of digital media assets such as photos and video/film clips.

With that in mind we propose five guiding principles as our "Embedded Metadata Manifesto":
    1.    Metadata is essential to describe, identify and track digital media and should be applied to all media items which are exchanged as files or by other means such as data streams.
    2.    Media file formats should provide the means to embed metadata in ways that can be read and handled by different software systems.
    3.    Metadata fields, their semantics (including labels on the user interface) and values, should not be changed across metadata formats.
    4.    Copyright management information metadata must never be removed from the files.
    5.    Other metadata should only be removed from files by agreement with their copyright holders.

Check out these two sites to learn more.

Image Metadata announcements

Image Metadata Handbook
Brand new: the CEPIC/IPTC Image Metadata Handbook with comprehensive
guidelines for metadata management.

Contents:
Start_Introduction.pdf
Acrobat_Settings.pdf
Core_Fields.pdf
Extension_Fields.pdf
Guide_Book.pdf
Interactive_Table.pdf
Legal_Document.pdf

http://www.iptc.org/std/photometadata/documentation/CEPIC-IPTC-ImageMetadata
Handbook_1.zip

Also see

Embedded Metadata Manifesto (2011)

How metadata should be embedded and preserved in digital media files
The Manifesto was issued by the IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group in May
2011

Photographers, film makers, videographers, illustrators, publishers,
advertisers, designers, art directors, picture editors, librarians and
curators all share the same problem: struggling to track rapidly expanding
collections of digital media assets such as photos and video/film clips.

More at

http://www.iptc.org/site/Photo_Metadata/Embedded_Metadata_Manifesto_(2011)

Thanks to
Alan Newman
National Gallery of Art
for this information

A DAM great list of Sources

The Museum Computer Network has been having an interesting discussion on Digital Asset Management systems. Among the information posted was some from, Leala Abbott, who has a blog on just this topic and is permitting me to post her suggested list of "great resources" here:

• DAM Foundation (LinkedIn): http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=1952873
• a cross-disciplinary, professional organization, devoted to standardizing and making sense of the world of DAM which would be useful to join and follow. I recently created the DAM List (links below) which is a community contributed list of technical specs on DAM products (which are actually tough to get without jumping through vendor hoops).
• The Real Story Group (leading content technology analyst group): http://www.realstorygroup.com/
• Digital Asset Management (industry Blog): http://digitalassetmanagement.org.uk/
• Createasphere (DAM Conference Series): http://createasphere.com/En/explore-expos-conferences.html
• Henry Stewart - Digital Asset Management Conference Series: http://www.hsconferences.com/dam.aspx
• Early and Associates: http://www.earley.com/
• AIIM: http://www.aiim.org/
• The DAM List (Product Tech Specs): http://lealaabbott.com/wp/archives/423

If you like those check out Leala at her blog Lealaabbott.com