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Automated Metadata Extraction and the Long Way to Significant Properties

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 by Christian Keitel

DIMAG and IngestList at the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg

Author: Dr. Christian Keitel

In digital archiving, doing something is better than doing nothing at all. Unfortunately, doing something even very basic one can run into problems. Many problems are based on the short lifespan of formats and data carriers. In other words, how can we transfer a logical representation with all its significant properties to another physical form? Is it possible to validate the new form in an automated way? This article reports how the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg tries to address these topics. (more…)

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