Working Group: Video Access WG
Areas of interest / research: Development and deployment of access technologies and standards for digital video
WG Chair: Grace Agnew
WG Members: Many. This may not be the complete list:
Grace Agnew, Rutgers Libraries
Mairead Martin, University of Tennessee
Chris Hodge, University of Tennessee
Markus Buchhorn, Australian National University
Ed Price, Georgia Tech
Jean Hudgins, Georgia Tech
Dan Kniesner, Oregon Health & Sciences University
Doug Pearson, Indiana University
Robert MacDonald, Auburn University
Manjula Patel, UKOLN
Jane Hunter, DTSC
Simon Pockley, Cinemedia
Phil Galanter, NYU
What were your goals for 2001? Did you meet those goals? If not,
which fell behind, and why? The primary goal was to develop
an application profile for Dublin Core, and to promote and distribute
this profile in usable form. We did develop the application profile
and distribute it as an MSAccess database. We also promoted its
use and provided training at a two-day conference in Atlanta, Georgia
in August 2001. Next steps are to formally propose it to the DCMI
and, hopefully, to develop a version in MySQL.
Are you happy with the progress you made in 2001? Yes. The workhop, Managing Digital Video Content, was very successful. The Dublin Core application profile is a very useful tool. We also began the groundwork for investigating MPEG-7 in 2002
What are your goals for 2002?
Submit the Dublin Core application profile to DCMI.
Develop an application profile for MPEG-7, building on the excellent
work already done by Jane Hunter. Develop a structure map for a
digital file using both MPEG-7 and METS, to compare the two.
Explore collaboration with the Association of Moving Image Archivists,
particularly in the area of a digital video portal, that could become
part of the Moving Image Gateway, and also for the metadata to be
used in the Moving Image Gateway (NB: ViDe Video Access Chair, Grace
Agnew, is the consultant for the AMIA Moving Image Gateway, so this
seems to be a natural and very positive possible collaboration.
Currently, rather big things are happening with the Moving Image
Gateway, so I have "back-burnered" the Video Access WG
somewhat. However, if the MIG gets going, I think the collaboration
potential for the Video Access WG will be tremendous.
Do you expect your working group to expand in the coming year? If so, what kind of people are you looking for? Yes, definitely. I'd like to involve more AMIA and Internet2 members. We also lack programmers, particularly database programmers, to assist with further development. I's really like to add some members with programming capabilities.
In your opinion, of what importance is the research your working group did this past year? How does it affect universities? The hardware or software market? The general public? I think the ViDe Dublin Core profile has great utility for enabling archives of all kinds to develop standards-based descriptive cataloging. I think in addition, we took a hard look at the capabilities and limitations of Dublin Core, and that we stretched its capabilities generally. We also have made useful contacts, and added members, with MPEG-7, Open Archives Initiative and metadata registries experience. I think we also did an excellent spreadsheet of all possible digital video types, that was useful both for developing genre categories and will be very useful for a digital video portal. I expect to make use of it for the AMIA Moving Image Gateway design.
Was your WG represented at any conferences or conventions this year? Were you happy with the representation? Do you have conference or convention plans for the coming year? We co-hosted a very successful conference, Managing Digital Video Content. I also presented the ViDe application profile for Dublin Core at the Internet2 Virtual members meeting in October (?), 2001. I will be presenting an overview of metadata, particularly metadata for moving images (including the ViDe AP and the progress on the MPEG-7 AP and METS, at the AMIA annual conference in Boston, November, 2002. When work slows down just a little bit, I will be proposing an edited book on metadata implementations for the American Library Association. Several members of the working group will be asked to submit a chapter on the Dublin Core AP for digital video. Jane Hunter had said she could contribute a chapter on MPEG-7 and possibly also on metadata interoperability.
If you could change one thing about your WG from the past year,
what would it be? What about your WG from 2001 are you most proud
of? I would have liked to see more active participation from
all members, rather than just a few. I am most proud of our successful
conference and also the active collaboration of video engineers/IT
professionals, librarians and (soon, I hope!) archivists. I'm very
pleased that we attracted Dan Kniesner to the working group. He
added a lot with his strong cataloging skills and keen, analytical
mind. It was also terrific that two internationally recognized authorities
in this area-Jane Hunter and Manjula Patel-have joined the group.
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