DOME Metadata Strikefore Audio Metadata Core Element Set

Team members:

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

Recommendations

Research

Standards

• ID3 (SW)
• ATOM/RSS (RW)
• SMIL/W3C (RW)
• MPEG-21 (NDM)

MPEG-21 seeks to define "the technology needed to support Users to exchange, access, consume, trade and otherwise manipulate Digital Items in an efficient, transparent and interoperable way."  It is mostly pertinent to commercial distribution of video or multimedia content.  We agreed that it's good to be aware of it, but it is not of immediate use for us. 

• AES (FL)
• AudioMD
• PBCore
• MPEG-7

Forrest will dig around for more standards

Best Practices

• 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.
       Recommended technical metadata for sound.

• • bit-depth (bits per sample)
  • sampling rate (kHz)
  • compression method (codec)
  • number of channels (mono, stereo, or higher)
  • digital coding method

Audio preservation standards documents

• • National audio preservation standards
  • Sound directions Audio Preservation Standards

Audio Formats

Audio formats have not yet been discussed

Markup Languages

• MusicXML is a markup language -- a method of digitally encoding and distributing a music score.  It is, essentially, a form of music notation.  Interesting but not relevant to metadata for audio files.

Digital Audio Projects

• Seattle Japanese POW Oral Histories
• Safe Sounds audio preservation company
• Project Jukebox in Alaska (RW)
• Indiana's project (NDM)

Indiana University's Digital Library Program has a great list of standards, guidelines and templates in use for the various formatsrepresented in their projects.

• MIT OpenCourseWare (RW)
• DSpace / DOME (RW)

Meeting Notes

13 July 2009

21 September 2009