On the last day of the 2013 FIAT/IFTA Media Management Commission Seminar (aka ‘metadata heaven’) I had an epiphany. Because food seemed to be on everyone’s mind* I decided to compare digital assets to onions; spend too much time peeling away layers, adding metadata to come closer to their essence, you may sacrifice accessibility to … [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…]