Post on 23-Jun-2015
The Hourglass Model: metadata in AV archiving beyond the buzzwords
Brecht Declercq, VIAA, Belgium
Sexto Seminario Internacional de Archivos Sonoros y AudiovisualesMexico City, 24.06.2014
(c) BBC, http://tinyurl.com/mv9phhp, 01.05.2014
NESSIE
Linked metadata
Linked open data
User generated metadata
Automatically extracted metadata
Preservation metadata
Descriptive metadata
etc ...
Production metadata
Linked metadata
Linked open data
User generated metadata
Automatically extracted metadata
Preservation metadata
Descriptive metadata
etc ...
Production metadata
Linked metadata
Linked open data
User generated metadata
Automatically extracted metadata
Preservation metadata
Descriptive metadata
etc ...
Production metadata
Linked metadata
Linked open data
User generated metadata
Automatically extracted metadata
Preservation metadata
Descriptive metadata
etc ...
Production metadata
Linked metadata
Linked open dataUser generated metadata
Automatically extracted metadata Preservation metadata
Descriptive metadata
etc ...?
Linked metadata
User generated metadata
Automatically extracted metadata Preservation metadata Production metadata
Linked metadata
User generated metadata
Automatically extracted metadata Preservation metadata Production metadata
CREATIONLEVEL
PROCESSINGLEVEL
PURPOSELEVEL
The Hourglass Model
CREATIONLEVEL
PROCESSINGLEVEL
PURPOSELEVEL
USERGENERATEDMETADATA
AUTOMATICALLYGENERATEDMETADATA
PRODUCTION METADATA
FULLMANUAL
METADATA
PRESERVATION &COLLECTION
MANAGEMENT
ENHANCEMENT&
CONTEXTUALISATION
SEARCH &
RETRIEVAL
The Hourglass Model
CREATIONLEVEL
PROCESSINGLEVEL
PURPOSELEVEL
USERGENERATEDMETADATA
AUTOMATICALLYGENERATEDMETADATA
PRODUCTION METADATA
FULLMANUAL
METADATA
PRESERVATION &COLLECTION
MANAGEMENT
ENHANCEMENT&
CONTEXTUALISATION
SEARCH &
RETRIEVAL
The Hourglass Model
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CREATIONLEVEL
PROCESSINGLEVEL
PURPOSELEVEL
USERGENERATEDMETADATA
AUTOMATICALLYGENERATEDMETADATA
PRODUCTION METADATA
FULLMANUAL
METADATA
PRESERVATION &COLLECTION
MANAGEMENT
ENHANCEMENT&
CONTEXTUALISATION
SEARCH &
RETRIEVAL
The Hourglass Model
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ALITY CHECKIN
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BBC World Service Archive Prototype
Multi combinations
PRODUCTION METADATADESCRIPTION
+AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED
METADATA
+USER GENERATED METADATA
ASR
Different methods reinforcing eachother !
• To know the strengths and weaknesses of various ways to create descriptive metadata.
• To know your collection: what characteristics does it have?
• To know which goal(s) you’re aiming at before applying a way to create your metadata.
Making the right decision which tool to use is a key competence of the next generation of AV archivists
Key competences
(c) BBC, http://tinyurl.com/mv9phhp, 01.05.2014
Subtitling for the hearing impaired?Journalist’s texts from iNews? *
* Courtesy R. Wright
Slide 31
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