1. Descriptive metadata for media archives:
From buzzwords to strategies
CBMI-conference – Graz (A) – 15.09.2022

2. Questions that audiovisual archives ask
themselves
 How do I still describe those gigantic quantities?
 How do I do all that in an efficient way?
 Should I just start using all those new technologies?
 But which one exactly, because there is so much talk about
it...

3. From buzzwords to strategy
Let's start from this premise:
In the media production and consumption chain,
a lot of metadata are created
(consciously and unconsciously!)
Which of them could enable search and retrieval?
Which of them could enable preservation?
Which of them could enable enhancement and contextualisation?

4. From buzzwords to strategy
To gain insight and overview, we can categorize all these
methods based on a number of characteristics:
Who creates them?
When are these metadata created?
With which device / technology?
How are the metadata linked to the essence?

6. METADATA CREATION
PRODUCER OR
THEIR TOOLS
CONSUMER
OR THEIR
TOOLS
ARCHIVIST OR
THEIR TOOLS
METADATA COLLECTION
PRODUCTION
WORKFLOWS AND
EDITING SYSTEMS
USER PLATFORMS,
AUDIENCE RATING,
BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE, ...
MAM SYSTEMS
AND OTHER
ARCHIVAL
DATABASES
METADATA LINKING
POINT
IN
THE
MEDIA
VALUE
CHAIN
DURING MEDIA
PRODUCTION
DURING MEDIA
CONSUMPTION
AFTER (FIRST) MEDIA
CONSUMPTION

7. Brecht Declercq
brecht.declercq@meemoo.be