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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

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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

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Automatically extracted metadata Preservation metadata

Descriptive metadata

etc ...?

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User generated metadata

Automatically extracted metadata Preservation metadata Production metadata

Linked metadata

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CONTEXTUALISATION

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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

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