CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

  • About CNI
    • Membership
    • CNI Collaborations
    • Staff
    • Steering Committee
    • CNI Awards
    • History
    • CNI News
  • Program Plan
    • Current Program Plan
    • Program Plan Archive
  • Topics
  • Events & Projects
    • Membership Meetings
    • Workshops & Projects
    • Other Events
    • Event Calendar
  • Resources
    • Publications by CNI Staff
    • Program Plan
    • Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series
    • Videos & Podcasts
    • Follow CNI
    • Historical Resources
  • Contact Us

AMP: An Audiovisual Metadata Platform to Support Mass Description

Home / Project Briefing Pages / CNI Spring 2018 Membership Meeting Project Briefings / AMP: An Audiovisual Metadata Platform to Support Mass Description

March 13, 2018

Jon W. Dunn
Assistant Dean for Library Technologies
Indiana University

Chris Lacinak
President
AVP

In recent years, concern over the longevity of physical audio and video (AV) formats due to media degradation and obsolescence, combined with decreasing cost of digital storage, have led libraries and archives to embark on projects to digitize recordings for purposes of long-term preservation and improved access. Beyond digitization, in order to facilitate discovery and research use, AV materials must also be described, but many items and collections lack sufficient metadata. In 2015, with the support of consulting firm AVP, the Indiana University Libraries conducted a planning project to research, analyze, and report on technologies, workflows, staffing, timeline and budgets to address the challenge of quickly and efficiently creating large quantities of metadata for mass-digitized AV collections. One of the outcomes of this planning project was identification of a need for a technology platform to support the incremental application of both automated and human-based processes to create and augment metadata. With support from a Mellon Foundation planning grant, Indiana University has partnered with experts from the University of Texas at Austin School of Information and AVP to explore the design of a software platform to support the incremental application of automated and human-based processes to create and augment metadata at large scales for AV collections. In this session, we will describe the proposed technical architecture for this system, dubbed the Audiovisual Metadata Platform (or AMP), discuss the use cases and technical considerations that informed its design, and discuss next steps toward implementation and pilot testing.

Presentation

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2018 Membership Meeting Project Briefings, Information Access & Retrieval, Metadata, Project Briefing Pages
Tagged With: cni2018spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Last updated:  Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018

 

Contact Us

21 Dupont Circle
Suite 800
Washington, DC, 20036
202.296.5098

Contact us
Copyright © 2023 CNI

  • Copyright Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Site map

Keeping up with CNI

CNI-ANNOUNCE is a low-volume electronic forum used for information about the activities and programs of CNI, and events and documents of interest to the CNI community.
Sign up

Follow CNI

  • View cni.org’s profile on Facebook
  • View cni_org’s profile on Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
  • Vimeo

A joint project