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
Monday, August 1, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
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.
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.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
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
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/
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/
Thanks to
Alan Newman
National Gallery of Art
for this information
Monday, April 25, 2011
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
Saturday, April 9, 2011
New Digital Preservation Tools
A new free and open source package of digital preservation tools is being developed. It is called Archivematica and is a product of many collaborators. It brings together several digital preservation tools that would normally be used separately such as JHOVE and DROID and puts them into a workflow system.
Their description of their process is in itself interesting and while it is still in beta form, it is worth the wander to go and peruse what they say and plan for:
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