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Gives background on the Federal Communications Commission Advanced Television broadcasting standard for digital video (U.S. ATSC digital television standard) and the issue of a technical shortfall in existing equipment capabilities. Describes a program to accelerate industry development of an information infrastructure listing five requirements addressed by the program that will be addressed by four goals. The paper discusses business goals, the program description and plan, U.S. economic benefit, and industry feedback. The paper advocates that attention needs to be immediately focused on this information technology opportunity with potential for significant U.S. economic impact.
Describes in some detail the Digital Data Storage - ATP Focused Program Competition and results of the request for proposals. All funded projects are listed and a link provided to all proposals submitted. The detailed program description and list of funded projects provides a good overview of this technology and advanced systems being developed for the marketplace.
The INFO2000 Programme of the European Union is sponsoring a project called VERDI (Very Extensive Rights Data Information). The project will facilitate multimedia rights trading by creating a European-wide rights information and licensing network. This is particularly of interest for multimedia producers. The network is described, along with the protocols and standards being discussed and piloted.
The general philosophy and components of the CapNet digital library being developed to support the legislative process in Congress is described. It is based on an open systems, object-oriented architecture. Standards are important, with different media stored as data fragments and then integrated. Integration of commercial systems is also important. The five components of a digital library -- workflow, the network, object management information, the object content repository, and text indexing -- are described. Future plans are discussed.
This document collects papers from this conference which cover a wide range of topics including encryption, intellectual property related metadata for rights management, secure servers, copyright management systems, etc.
Minutes from a presentation by George Roncaglia, NASA Langley Research Center at the CENDI meeting on February 2, 1999. Mr. Roncaglia discussed changes at NASA in the context of dwindling resources in a volatile environment. NASA 's products and services are dependent on partnerships with the NASA Centers and other organizations. He provided a brief explanation about the NASA Image Exchange System (NIX), a distributed photographic archive that has over 500,000 photographs, along with video and audio clips.
The Digital Knowledge Center (DKC) at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University is developing a workflow management system aimed at reducing the amount of human labor and time needed for large-scale digitization projects such as the one currently underway with the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music. This paper covers the second phase of that project (Levy II). The goals of the second phase are to: reduce costs for incorporating large digitization projects into the collection by creating processes, tools, and interfaces for workflow management; increase access capabilities to the digitized collection via research tools; and to demonstrate the utility of the workflow mangement system. In order to incorporate the newly digitized material into the existing collection in a cost efficient manner, automated tools were developed to reduce the amount of human labor involved in creating the metadata and increased access to the new material. An automated name authority control system (ANAC) was developed to enhance access to the Levy Collection by introducing authorized name searching. The ANAC would also reduce labor costs and improve interoperability of Levy metadata with other collections by using standard data sources and format. This system would also produce a name match confidence value so that managers can establish thresholds that trigger manual intervention. The search engine that is being developed augments metadata searching with unique search capabilities for lyrics and music. Secondary and parallel indices provide a versatile means of searching a variety of documents. The use of partitions on metadata fields allows for metadata-based searching and retrieval and a way to segment documents. Although the workflow management system was developed specifically for the Levy sheet music collection, the authors feel that the tools are generalized enough so that other collections can benefit from them.
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