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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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JHOVE

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 by Bernhard Haslhofer

Autoren: Bernhard Haslhofer, Universität Wien, bernhard.haslhofer@univie.ac.at; Prof. Dr. Franz Wirl, Research Studios Austria, franz.wirl@researchstudio.at

Abstract
Im Kontext digitaler Langzeitarchivierung tritt immer wieder die Frage nach dem Dateiformat eines Medienobjekts auf. Abhängig vom Format müssen Strategien entwickelt werden, die es ermöglichen auch noch in ferner Zukunft auf archivierte Inhalte zuzugreifen. Dieser Bericht stellt JHove vor, ein JAVA-Tool zur Bestimmung, Validierung, und Charakterisierung von Dateiformaten.
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