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Digital preservation of audiovisual files within PrestoPRIME
No full textPrestoPRIME is a European project aiming at digital preservation of audiovisual files. In our scenarios we can observe a combination of lifecycles related to content, systems, services, and organisations involved both in the media and technical businesses. Taking as reference the OAIS model, we followed the principle of keeping everything under control, from all perspectives: configuration, resource management, data integrity, content quality and metadata handling. As a result, in the future users will have the opportunity to find and re-use high quality audiovisual material. Project outcomes include tools for simulating and modelling the use of resources and for service governance, software for content quality assessment, services for metadata mapping, techniques for content tracking, model and services supporting the management of exploitation rights. The reference software implementation provides a framework for integrating external tools
Metadata representation and risk management framework for preservation processes in AV archives
No full textThis paper proposes an approach to assessing risks related to audiovisual (AV) preservation processes through gathering and representing metadata. We define a model for process metadata,which is interoperable with both business process models and other preservation metadata formats. A risk management framework is also suggested to help key decision makers to plan and execute preservation processes in a manner that reduces the risk of ‘damage’ to AV content. The framework uses a plan, do,check, act cycle to continuously improve the process based on risk measures and impact model. The process metadata serves as the interface between the steps in the framework and enables a unified approach to data gathering from the heterogeneous toolsand devices used in an AV preservation workflow
100 Million Hours of Audiovisual Content: Digital Preservation and Access in the PrestoPRIME Project
No full textWe report the preliminary results of PrestoPRIME, an EU FP7 integrated project, including audiovisual (AV) archives, academics and industrial partners, focused on long-term digital preservation of AV media objects and on ways to increase access by integrating media archives with European on-line digital libraries, specifically Europeana. Project outcomes will result in tools and services to ensure the permanence of digital AV content in archives, libraries, museums and other collections, enabling long-term future access in dynamically changing contexts. PrestoPRIME has a special focus on digital preservation in broadcast environments, where very large files of digital video must be preserved at high quality (suitable for future re-use in an AV production environment) in affordable distributed and federated archives. The adoption of standard solutions for digital preservation processes (metadata representation, content storage, digital rights government, search and access) enables the interoperability of the proposed preservation framework and guidelines. OAIS model was chosen for the reference architecture, METS is adopted as wrapper for metadata representation, while relevant standards (e.g. W3C, ISO/IEC and others) are used for content and rights description. Project outcomes will be delivered through a European networked Competence Centre, to gather knowledge and deliver advanced digital preservation advice and services in conjunction with Europeana and other initiatives
Sidonie Werner Collection. 1957
No full textThis collection contains 2 letters from Grete Stern describing the work of Sidonie Werner (1957), as well as a brief biographical sheet of Sidonie Werner by another
author (circa 1957). There is also a letter of thanks from Leo Baeck Institute regarding Greta Sterns' efforts to provide information on Werner (1957).Social worker, founder of Jüdischen Frauenbundes (JFB) and Israelitischen Humanitären Frauenvereins (home for senior women) in Hamburg.The original German language inventory is available in the folderProcessed for digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
DAVID: D3.5 - Recommendations and techniques for content in a "born robust" form
No full textThis deliverable describes the demand, the concept and suggests solutions for born robust audio-visual files. A list of tools fostering file robustness is presented as well as the current state of born robust attributes in the standardisation process media formats
Werner Warmbrunn Collection. 1885-2006
No full textThe Werner Warmbrunn Collection documents life and professional activities of Werner Warmbrunn and to a smaller extent, members of his immediate family. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries and memoirs, educational documents, printed materials, and unpublished poetry by David Warmbrunn and Werner Warmbrunn. Included in the collection are Werner Warmbrunn’s personal correspondence (mostly from the late 1930s); professional correspondence pertaining to his work at Stanford University and Pitzer College; as well as correspondence of his parents, David and Lilly. However, the core of the collection consists of Werner Warmbrunn’s diaries dating back to the late 1930s. Additionally, there is unpublished poetry by Werner Warmbrunn and David Warmbrunn, printed materials, and photo albums arranged topically by Werner Warmbrunn.Werner Warmbrunn was born on July 3rd, 1920, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His father, Dr. David Warmbrunn was a chemist, who owned a commercial laboratory. In 1936 the Warmbrunn family moved to Amsterdam, Holland. In 1939, his parents left Holland and settled in the United States. Werner Warmbrunn remained in Holland and attended a Quaker agricultural boarding school. In 1941 he came to the United States where he stayed with his sister on a farm near Cornell, Ithaca. He earned his BA in 1943 at Cornell University and his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University. Between 1949 and 1952 Werner Warmbrunn served as a Co-Director at the Peninsula School in Menlo Park, California. From 1952 to 1964 he was a foreign student adviser and director at Bechtel International Student Center, Stanford University. In 1963, he was invited to Pitzer College by its president, John Atherton. Werner Warmbrunn helped design the academic programs for the new college (Pitzer College, an undergraduate liberal college was founded in 1963) and developed its community. Werner Warmbrunn is the author of two books: The Dutch Under German Occupation, 1940-1945 and The German Occupation of Belgium 1940-1945. Werner Warmbrunn retired in 1991. He died in 2009.Processeddigitize
Werner Bergengrün Collection. 1941-1966
No full textThis collection contains photocopies of correspondence and obituarial material regarding Werner Bergengrün. There is
also material pertaining to Johannes Urzidil that may or may not be connected with Werner Bergengrün. The earliest correspondence is
to the Urzidils in New York from an acquaintance in England, indicating that the war will get worse but he should visit when it is
over (1941). Following the 1941 Urzidil letter are obituaries for Werner Bergengrün from 1964. There is a 1966 letter from Lotte
Bergengrün to Johannes Urzidil, indicating that Werner was sick for some time and his last poem is dated 1962. The last item in the
collection is a letter from "Fritta B." in Munich to Johannes Urzidil, exchanging greetings.Werner Bergengrün (1892-1964) was a Baltic German author. He married Lotte Hensel, a descendent of Moses
Mendelssohn.Processed for digitizatio
Evaluating Data Quality in Europeana: Metrics for Multilinguality
No full textEuropeana.eu aggregates metadata describing more than 50 million cultural heritage objects from libraries, museums, archives and audiovisual archives across Europe. The need for quality of metadata is particularly motivated by its impact on user experience, information retrieval and data re-use in other contexts. One of the key goals of Europeana is to enable users to retrieve cultural heritage resources irrespective of their origin and the material’s metadata language. The presence of multilingual metadata descriptions is therefore essential for successful cross-language retrieval. Quantitatively determining Europeana’s cross-lingual reach is a prerequisite for enhancing the quality of metadata in various languages. Capturing multilingual aspects of the data requires us to take into account the full lifecycle of data aggregation including data enhancement processes such as automatic data enrichment. The paper presents an approach for assessing multilinguality as part of data quality dimensions, namely completeness, consistency, conformity and accessibility. We describe the measures defined and implemented, and provide initial results and recommendations
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