Posted by stefanwray on March 14, 2009 at 4:53pm
Denver Open Media will do a presentation on its Open Media Project today, March 14, at 5:30 PM at BarCampAustin at 311 East 5th Street in Austin. DOM staff are in town for SXSW and to do work at channelAustin .
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Just got some great advice
Just got some great advice from Pandora's Tom Conrad about metadata. I know I still owe everyone a post about moving away from the PBCore genres. Hopefully I'll get that done in my "downtime" this weekend.
I wish we were staying for VoCamp Austin March 28-29. I'm hoping Stefan can drop in and get some advice from that group.
Heading over to Barcamp to present next. Then we're going to PBS's SXSW party. Yes, PBS is hosting a party at SXSW.
Moving away from PBCore?
What's this I hear about moving away from the unofficial pbcore genres? That's so exciting! out here at PCM we're reconstructing our genre selection and have been trying to get ahold of some ACM Server Standards for meta data so that we build all on the same page. What are your thoughts on using Tribune Media Services Standards or another type of cross-platform set we could all use?
Better Meta
Aside from working out what we use the most here in the station, I spoke to a reference librarian friend of mine, (thanks Liz Fitzpatrick) figuring she’d have some pointers about categorizing things and thus developing the best metadata standards. Here’s what she said n case it’s helpful for those of you more advanced in such thinking:
“This is a set of principles from reputable people: http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps17461/forumframework.pdf but sadly I read on pg. 19 that their thinking about videos was incomplete. Be careful of the links - I had better luck retyping the urls. I thought they explained metadata pretty well.
“Even if you're not creating a catalog database for this collection, I think you'd want to have descriptions of each one in the format of the Dublin Core (which is the least-common-denominator type metadata standard for libraries, archives and the web: http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/ -- of course you don't need all the fields).
“And maybe better, the Society of American Archivists' page on format standards for video: http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/bptf/mera-av.asp Seems they are guided by (and link to) the standards at Library of Congress, which makes sense.”