Intellectual Access to
Preservation Data Interest Group
ALA/ALCTS/PARS
2008 Annual Meeting,
Anaheim
8-10am Saturday, June 28,
2008
208B Anaheim Convention Center
Co-Chairs:
Jonathan Thorn, Tyra Grant
Announcements &
Business
Discussion: PARS restructuring proposal: especially the proposal to
establish a new Preservation Administration Interest Group that will include the
previous Intellectual Access to Preservation Data Interest Group along with the
PARS DG, & the Preservation Instruction, Education and Outreach
DG.
Meeting Topic: Intellectual
Access to Audio Preservation Data
I. Reformatting Audio: generic project
overview (Andrew Justice: Music Librarian for Audio and Digital
Services, University of North Texas)
Goals/Outcomes for a typical audio
reformatting project(s)
Planning considerations:
source formats, resources, access requirements.
Workflow/planning outline: elements typical for audio reformatting
project(s)
Partners: for planning or operations
Resources: Where to go for help? Who’s working on these projects
now?
II. Metadata
Decisions: Selection, Harvesting and Transmission (Preston
Cabe: Database Administrator, Safe Sound Archive)
How to think about metadata for audio reformatting
projects
What metadata do you need/want? Everyone’s needs are
different
Problems associated with audio preservation
metadata
What we are currently doing about the
problems
What we are doing to solve those
problems
III.
Standards and the future of Preservation Metadata for Audio (facilitator:
Jonathan Thorn, Audio Preservation Engineer, Safe Sound
Archive)
What’s desirable and what’s possible
Current standard practices
Where we’re currently not standardized but could benefit from
standardization
Stakeholders: groups,
individual organizations: experts, leaders or participants
Goals, priorities and strategies
Intellectual access to audio preservation data---what do
we want to accomplish?
What do audio reformatting projects do well (i.e., what
have we figured out)?
What’s being worked on? What challenges us?
How might we work together to achieve progress and educate
ourselves?
Ideas for ALA Midwinter
2009
Management, preservation and access for
metadata and audio files.
Embedded Metadata in Digital Files
Intellectual Access 101: Cataloging and Intellectual
Access to Preservation Data
New developments.