Audio Guides for Digital Archives

Semantic Analysis for Tomorrow’s Audio-visual Digital Archives

PrestoSpace is a European-funded research project that aims at addressing the problem of decaying audio-visual archives throughout Europe by means of digitisation for preservation and access. One of the work areas within the project is Metadata Access and Delivery (MAD) which employs innovative methods of generating metadata for the digitised media in order to enhance the resulting archives and...

XML Retrieval for Digital Archives

CityInMyPocket: Digital Walking Guides

By the end of this year visitors to the Flemish town of Mechelen can discover the city with the help of the new CityInMyPocket walking guide. Instead of following a person or a book, people can pick up a CityInMyPocket digital walking guide and go sightseeing at their own speed. So, leave your heavy guidebooks and many flyers at home. CityInMyPocket will tell you just as much, and even more. Ci...

Semantic Digital Archives Preface

Current digital preservation is strongly biased towards data objects: digital files of document-style objects, or encapsulated and largely self-contained objects. To provide authenticity and provenance information, comprehensive metadata models are deployed to document information on an object’s context. Yet, we claim that simply documenting an objects context may not be sufficient to ensure pr...

Digital Video Archives

In this paper we discuss the role that a video data base may play in a digital video archive and some of the challenges that video data bases are facing Prob lems related to large scale storage and delivery of video data are brie y discussed while a modelling and query ing aspecs are treated more thoroughly We propose a generic data model that captures video data struc tures and that supports t...