Message-Id: <200101250003.RAA21046@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:02:55 -0800 From: Guenter Waibel <mailto:guenter@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU> Subject: Re: adminstrative metadata To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
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Hey everybody,
at the UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, we use a subset
of administrative metadata fields derived from an emerging standard
for presenting digital images called MOA2. The name is derived from
the project the set was originally developed for called "Making of
America II." MOA2 includes descriptive, administrative and structural
metadata, and one of its declared objectives consisted in aiding with
the preservation and administration of digital assets. This set of
fields has also been adopted by the California Digital Library.
For the types of metadata you are inquiring about, the fields in MOA2
are: Compression Format, Bit Depth, Color Space, ICC Scanner Profile,
FileId, FileType, FileSize, File Dimensions, FileDate. Personally, I
think it's a good idea to also capture hardware environment (the
scanner/camera etc). Some digital camerabacks (eg Betterlight) also
write the specific settings for a capture to a log, which may give
you some additional data.
For more general info on MOA2, see http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MOA2/.
For a pdf file of the CDL Digitization Standard, check out
http://www.ucop.edu/irc/cdl/tasw/Current/current.html.
Another interesting document, and maybe easier to digest :-), would
be the RLG Working Group on Preservation final report at
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/presmeta.html, which gives a nice &
compact overview over essential fields.
Then, of course, you need a database to handle all that wealth of
metadata, which is yet another ball of wax...
Guenter
>Imagelibbers:
>
>I am interested in what fields other institutions are using for
>administrative metadata of digital image capture.
>
>Examples might be: what type of camera/flatbed was used, lighting,
>bit-depth, color profile data, film-type if scanning from film, pixel
>width/height, etc.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Anthony Troncale
>Digital Collections Librarian
>The American Museum of Natural History
>79th St. at Central park West
>New York, NY 10024
>(212) 769-5421
mailto:>troncale@amnh.org
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Guenter Waibel Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive Digital Media Developer http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ Digital Imaging SIG Chair, MCN http://www.mcn.edu/visig_subscribe.taf mailto:guenter@uclink4.berkeley.edu Phone 510-643-8655 Fax 510-642-4889 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</pre>
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