DOME Metadata Strikefore Audio Metadata Core Element Set

Team members:

• Selina Wang
• Rob Wolfe
• Forrest Larson
• Nina Davis-Millis

Recommendations

Research

Standards

• ID3 (RW)
• ATOM/RSS (RW)
• SMIL/W3C (SW)
• MPEG-21 (ND)
• AES (FL)
• AudioMD
• PBCore
• MPEG-7

Forrest will dig around for more standards

Best Practices

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  --> AHDS Digital Moving Images and Sound Archiving Study (website ), (study pdf )
  Contains a great list of technical metadata for sound, as well as lists of audio formats, metadata standards, archiving & preservation issues, and recommendations for preservation formats.
  • bit-depth (bits per sample)
  • sampling rate (kHz)
  • compression method (codec)
  • number of channels (mono, stereo, or higher)
  • digital coding method

Audio Formats

Audio formats have not yet been discussed

Digital Audio Projects

• Seattle Japanese POW Oral Histories
• Safe Sounds audio preservation company
• Project Jukebox in Alaska (RW)
• Indiana's project
• MIT OpenCourseWare (RW)
• DSpace / DOME (RW)

Meeting Notes

13 July 2009