During the second day of the conference, participants continued to explore computer-driven and crowdsourced approaches to tag audiovisual assets. Although there exists a tension between these two methods, many participants argued for a combination of both. In spite of the challenges, solutions are already underway and were introduced as case studies at the conference. In … [Read more…]
From the first moment I arrived at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Beeld en Geluid), I knew I was in for something special. Half of the building’s ten-story structure is underground, housing a massive film & video collection! But I wasn’t here to ogle the building. I was here for the 2013 FIAT/IFTA … [Read more…]
Investigating the Significant Properties of Electronic Content over Time (InSPECT), a JISC funded project that ended in 2009, defines the concept as, “the characteristics of an Information Object that must be maintained over time to ensure its continued access, use, and meaning, and its capacity to be accepted as evidence of what it purports to … [Read more…]
There is no denying it. We’ve become a digitally centric culture. As such, enterprises are generating an astonishing number of files. Without a system to manage them, the files can quickly pile up and cause backups to become bloated. Precious money and resources are spent re-creating content that already exists because no one can find … [Read more…]