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Comparison Between PBCore And VMD For Technical Media Metadata
As posted to PBCore Resources Introduction VMD stands for Video Metadata and is a schema resulting from the Library of Congress AudioVisual Prototype Project. The documented schema lives at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/mets/Schemas/VMD.xsd and…
In Defense Of Unemotional Archiving
When I found the joys of second hand shopping in high school it was a godsend to an oddbird in a smalltown. The act of discovery and its cheapness at…
Instant Classics — Just Add 1s And 0s
Interesting piece by Daniel D’Addario in Newsweek about the non “classics” in the Criterion Collection library (The Curious Case of the Instant Classic), including The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons, Che, and A Christmas Tale….
Instantiations, Components, And Essence Tracks
As posted to PBCore Resources PBCore instantiation records work well for documenting renditions of an asset that are composed of a single tape or file, but when an instantiation requires multiple…
Is Hoarding An Archival Activity?
When I first moved to New York I lived in the Brooklyn Chinatown section of Sunset Park, an approximately 20 block long area sandwiched between a largely Hispanic section of…
Is It Wrong To Focus On Saving Mere Things After A Disaster?
One of the great conflicts I have with the choice of my career is the primary focus on material objects, on plastic things. Sure, those things hold important cultural content,…
Is The Product Of Less Process Sufficient For Audiovisual Collections?
Greene and Meissner’s “More Product, Less Process” is both an inspiration to me and one of the banes of my existence. As I’m sure many archivists feel, it’s refreshing to…
Is There A Right Time To Let Go Of Original Materials
Film is dead. Again. Or still. Or will be soon. It’s difficult to tell where exactly film is in the continuum from bloody-phlegm-coughed-up-in-a-handkerchief to too-far-gone-to-be-a-threatening-zombie. The tendency in the technological…
It’s Time To Start Considering Digital Materials As Legacy Formats
I know we all were very excited about the 50th anniversary of the first use of analog broadcast videotape six years ago…If by ‘we’ I mean myself, 7 friends, and…
Jazz Loft And AVPS At February ARSC New York Chapter Meeting
0 Comments Chris Lacinak has been invited to speak with Jazz Loft Project Director Sam Stephenson at the February 18th New York Chapter Meeting of the Association for Recorded Sound…
