by Julie Hardesty, Metadata Analyst, Digital Collection Services, Indiana University Libraries Welcome to the second post in our series about MDPI and metadata! Last time we discussed the overall sources of metadata for MDPI items and the topics we would cover more in-depth later in this series. Today’s post will cover metadata used to track… Read more »
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When is Betamax Not Betamax?
by Patrick Feaster, Media Preservation Specialist, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University MDPI has a ravenous appetite. To keep all its lines running at capacity, it needs to be fed around three thousand media objects per week. The stalwart band of workers responsible for dishing up the necessary diet of tapes and discs is… Read more »
Orson Welles on the Air
by Robert K. Schoon, Communications Specialist, Office of the Vice President for Information Technology, Indiana University At 16, he conned his way onstage in Ireland by pretending to be a cigar-smoking Theater Guild actor on vacation. He debuted on Broadway at 19, and co-founded his own experimental theater company soon after, which he then took… Read more »
On Rugby, Software Development, and Managing Media Digitization Workflows (Pt. 1)
by Mike Casey, Director of Technical Operations, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University Part 1 What do Rugby, software development, and media digitization have in common? The answer is scrum. scrum[1] /skruhm/ noun in rugby, the act of restarting play after an infringement when the two opposing packs of forwards group together with heads… Read more »
On Rugby, Software Development, and Managing Media Digitization Workflows (Pt. 2)
by Mike Casey, Director of Technical Operations, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University Part 2 This is a continuation of a post discussing the use of scrum procedures to help manage a media digitization operation. In part 1 we explored how scrum influences time, choice, and morale. In part 2 we begin with ideas… Read more »
Supporting Archival Donations and Donors
by Ronda L. Sewald, Archivist, Indiana University Black Film Center/Archive Obsolescent media generally proves to be an unpleasant obstacle when working with archival patrons. The professional equipment needed for playing back VHS, let alone formats such as open reel video, has become next to impossible for individual archives to obtain and keep operational. In addition, the… Read more »
Introducing the Avalon Media System
by John Dunn, Assistant Dean for Library Technologies, Indiana University Libraries While MDPI is well on its way to digitally preserving IU’s significant audiovisual collections, access is an equally important, and equally challenging, goal of the initiative. There are many dimensions to online digital access—rights, policies, description, discovery—but before any of these come into play,… Read more »
Introduction to Metadata in MDPI
by Julie Hardesty, Metadata Analyst, Digital Collection Services, Indiana University Libraries MDPI’s charge to digitally preserve and provide access to all significant audio and video recordings on all IU campuses by IU’s Bicentennial in 2020 is only possible with metadata. Metadata, or the information accompanying the audio and video recordings, allows us to know basic… Read more »