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Arndt, Olaf; Moonen, Rob
Camera Silens (1994)
Where is the wisdom we have lost in
knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost
in information?
T.S. Eliot, The Rock
(1934)
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Traditional Institutions for Archiving
• Libraries
• books
• atlas, maps and cartographical drawings
• Museums
• plaster mold collections
• collection of prints and drawings
• collection of photography
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“The archive is no longer a matter of discrete objects
(files, books, art works, etc.) stored and retrieved in
specific places (libraries, museums, etc.). Now the
archive is also a continuous stream of data, without
geography or container, continuously transmitted and
therefore without temporal restriction (always available in
the here and now).”
(Geoffrey Batchen, "The Art of Archiving")
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Digital Media Collections @ ZHdK (excerpt)
• Medien- und Informationszentrum MIZ
• Several thousand TV recordings
• Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology
•IDEAMA archive
•Bourges festival archive
• ZHdK Collections for Teaching and Research
• Image archive
• Diploma archives
• Additional collections
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Karlheinz Stockhausen,
»Mikrophonie I«, 1966
Presentation of Mikrophonie 1 at WDR
Cologne,
June 1965; VLNR: Johannes Fritsch, Aloys
Kontarsky, Bernhard Kontarsky, Alfred Alings
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Painting and Drawings
Sculpture
Photography
Design Objects
Audio and Video
etc.
Painting and Drawings
Sculpture
Photography
Design Objects
Audio and Video
etc.
Stream of data
Images
Text
Audio and Video
Animation and 3D Graphics
Software
etc.
Images
Text
Audio and Video
Animation and 3D Graphics
Software
etc.
Digital
Master
Digital
Master
Physical Object
Born Digital Data
DigitisationCopy
ArchiveArchive
Ingest
MetadataMetadata
Context
Technical
Metadata
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Digital Preservation
• Long-term, error-free storage of digital information
• “long enough to be concerned with the impacts of changing technologies,
including support for new media and data formats, or with a changing user
community. Long Term may extend indefinitely” (Consultative Committee
for Space Data Systems. OAIS, 2002)
• Preservation metadata
• Preservation metadata stores technical details on the format, structure and
use of the digital content, the history of all actions performed on the
resource including changes and decisions, the authenticity information such
as technical features or custody history, and the responsibilities and rights
information applicable to preservation actions (National Library of Australia.
Preserving Acces to Digital Information)
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Ingest Process
• Transfer of digital master to long-term-storage
• Creation of transcoded derivates
• Connection of digital master and its derivates with metadata
• Insertion of metadata
• Technical metadata (automatic)
• Content based indexing (automatic)
• Preservation metadata
• Edited metadata (based on predefined conventions)
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Archival Systems @ ZHdK
• DILPS - Distributed Image Library
Processing System (Open Source)
• Wiki Based Systems
• Audio Archives
• Specialised Systems
• Video Library
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Metadata
• Core metadata set (fixed)
• Extended metadata set (free, depends on
object type)
• Versioning (no changes to metadata. Only
new sets will be attached and old ones will
reside on database)
• Metadata view depends on object type
(label and fields)
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• Special data type: Date
– Every date is an interval
– Datestrings are parsed with predefined regular
expressions
• „Around 1950“
• „17th century“
• „Middle ages“
• „2007-11-04“
• „1973-1977“
– Searching means interval search on two intervals
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URN / Storage
• URN resolves to URL based on
– Location
– Access protocol
– urn:hgkz:design/8:2332/9014/thumb
• file:///data/dilps/design/lib01/d/c/120x90_9014.jpg
(direct file system access)
• http://media3.hgkz.ch/dilps2/resource.php/design/li
b01/d/c/120x90_9014.jpg?__SID__ (access via
http protocol)
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Authentication
• Domain based authentication model
• Every domain uses its own authentication
subsystem
• Authentication Entities
• User (z.B. zhdk/enge)
• Group (z.B. zhdk/DDE_ITE.dozierende)
• Location (z.B. 192.168.10.12)
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AAI Integration
• The DILPS backend is able to accept users from Switch
AAI domain
• Granularity of group information sufficient for many
cases
• Web2.0 Interface doesn‘t allow seemless AAI login (due
to redirect)
• Excellent possibility for cooperation projects with other
institution based on shared media storage
• Eventually additional need for group management tool
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• Access Control Lists are
available for all structural
elements
– Collection
– Item
– Resource
– URN
– Group
• Rights
– Read
– Write
– Execute
– Create
– Permission
– Revoke
Authorisation