This PowerPoint helps students to consider the concept of infinity.
Digital Video File Organization
1. MANAGING DIGITAL
VIDEO
From Practice to Theory
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"It's a rather rare phenomenon for an established medium to die.
They usually expand wildly in their early days and then
shrink back to some protective niche as they are challenged
by later and more highly evolved competitors . . .
but some media do, in fact, perish." …………. Bruce Sterling Dead Media Manifesto
2. Some Caveats
Digital/Analog Library Grew
Organically
Workflow is is tried to hardware
Ultra Nexus WinLGX
Simultaneous
Playback/encoding
Good: Combines Playback
MPEG-2
3. Some Caveats
This is NOT Digital preservation
This is NOT Tape preservation
This is service copy organization
$53,476.50
Digital Betacam VTR
$47
Sony BCT-D124L 124 Minute
5. Traditional Side
Programs come in from outside (Import, Local Import)
not archived
Played
if digital, erased,
if traditional format, given back.
Programs from inside the facility
added to database.
Weeded then stored as tape in subbasement.
6. Digital Side
Digital side
Outside the facility (few but growing)
Inside the facility (from FCP)
and from below (tapes from the subbasement that are digitized
from regular playback)
Most import programming=DVDs
7. Speaking of the Tape Library
(Intellectual)
Unique identifier=Program Number + Episode Number
Check box for NAS
8. Speaking of the Tape Library
(Physical)
Weeding:
Programs dating back to 1981.
Lightly culled during 2005 facility move. Library is considered a
working library and environmental conditions are access storage.
14. Digital File Generation
Digitizing
Program
Began in
2007 with the
purchase of
first file
playback
system.
Format of
programs
played.
Data from Leightronix playback logs
Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr
15. Loss of 1 terabyte of programs
Worst Case Scenario
16. What we lost
Upside: Didn’t lose much content
because we are still a tape based house.
Some of the lost content was doomed
anyway
Upside: Didn’t lose much content
because we are still a tape based house.
Some of the lost content was doomed
anyway
Depending on set up:
Staff Time
Another play on old
tapes
3000 hours
17. What We Gained
A fresh start
Unique identifiers or a
better naming convention
The ability to track digitized
programs though the
system
An easier way to count
different categories of
18. What We Gained (continued)
A hard look at our
Collection Development
Policy
The impetus to weed an
uncontrolled collection
Discussions about access
The American Library Association
defines collection development policies
(CDP) as “documents which define the
scope of a library's existing collections,
plan for the continuing development of
resources, identify collection strengths,
and outline the relationship between
selection philosophy and the institution's
goals, general selection criteria, and
intellectual freedom”.
The American Library Association
defines collection development policies
(CDP) as “documents which define the
scope of a library's existing collections,
plan for the continuing development of
resources, identify collection strengths,
and outline the relationship between
selection philosophy and the institution's
goals, general selection criteria, and
intellectual freedom”.
19. What We Gained (continued)
Discussions about new
content management
solutions
The development of a
records management
schedule for digital files
Peace of Mind
The American Library Association
defines collection development policies
(CDP) as “documents which define the
scope of a library's existing collections,
plan for the continuing development of
resources, identify collection strengths,
and outline the relationship between
selection philosophy and the institution's
goals, general selection criteria, and
intellectual freedom”.
The American Library Association
defines collection development policies
(CDP) as “documents which define the
scope of a library's existing collections,
plan for the continuing development of
resources, identify collection strengths,
and outline the relationship between
selection philosophy and the institution's
goals, general selection criteria, and
intellectual freedom”.
22. What We Bought
behold…the answer to all your problems.
Hewlett Packard x1600
behold…the answer to all your problems.
Hewlett Packard x1600
48 terabyte (24 use, 24 backup)
24. CMS wishlist
1. Must be able to migrate existing data from
Microsoft Access database
2. Must be able to export Csv
3. Program Playback: Searchable Fields
4. Program Scheduling: Reports
Daily playback log by time
Daily playback by unique identifier (Tape
Number/DateCreated)
Tape labels
Monthly playback statistics
Length
Genera
Producer
Keywords
Series Title
Episode Title
Unique Identifier (Tape Number)
Format
Location
Archive
Date Created
Status (Played or unplayed)
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Digital Collection Building
•Library of Congress, "Selection Criteria for Preservation Digital
Reformatting"
•Columbia University, "Selection Criteria for Digital Imaging Projects"
•University of California, "Selection Criteria for Digitization"
•Harvard University, "Selection for Digitization: a Decision-Making
Matrix"
•National Agricultural Library, "Selection Criteria and Guidelines"
•Oxford University, "Decision Matrices and Workflows" (Appendix B)
•National Library of Australia Digitisation Policy, 2000-2004.