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Digital Asset Management with Free and OpenTools

David Rice Mike Castleman

Democracy Now!New York, NY

Digital Asset Symposium, 2008-04-25

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License

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Outline

.. .1 Recording

.. .2 Encoding

.. .3 Dissemination and Access

.. .4 Digital Preservation

.. .5 Metadata

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Introduction

Democracy Now!http://www.democracynow.org/

Free Software and Open Standardshttp://www.fsf.org/http://www.openstandards.net/

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Outline

.. .1 Recording

.. .2 Encoding

.. .3 Dissemination and Access

.. .4 Digital Preservation

.. .5 Metadata

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dvgrab

http://www.kinodv.org/

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cron

Comes with Linux etc.

Photo: noii, creative commons licensed, http://flickr.com/photos/noii/2326900487/

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vidi

http://www.mitzpettel.com/software/vidi.php (or search“vidi”)

(not Free Software, but close enough)

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Outline

.. .1 Recording

.. .2 Encoding

.. .3 Dissemination and Access

.. .4 Digital Preservation

.. .5 Metadata

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Codecs

H.264MPEG-2Ogg Theora

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SoftwareCommand-Line

ffmpeg: http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/x264

mencoder: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MP4Box: http://gpac.sourceforge.net/

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SoftwareMac OS X GUI

ffmpegX: http://homepage.mac.com/major4/

x264 for quicktime (the good one!):http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/mycometg3/(search “x264 quicktime japan”)

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Outline

.. .1 Recording

.. .2 Encoding

.. .3 Dissemination and Access

.. .4 Digital Preservation

.. .5 Metadata

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The Internet Archive

http://www.archive.org/

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blip.tv

http://www.blip.tv/

(ad-supported, but more open than YouTube)

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H.264 on the Web

Adobe Flash 9 Update 3 (not Free Software)JW FLV Media Player

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BitTorrent

http://ewheel.democracynow.org/Miro: http://www.getmiro.com/

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Outline

.. .1 Recording

.. .2 Encoding

.. .3 Dissemination and Access

.. .4 Digital Preservation

.. .5 Metadata

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Digital Tape Formats

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DATXtract

http://pdicamillo.org/~peter/datxtract/

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DATXtractQuality Control

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DATXtractQuality Control

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Live Capture Plus

http://www.squarebox.co.uk/lcplus.html

(not Free Software, £35)

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Bacula

http://www.bacula.org/

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Outline

.. .1 Recording

.. .2 Encoding

.. .3 Dissemination and Access

.. .4 Digital Preservation

.. .5 Metadata

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Adding Metadata

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Extracting Metadata

http://getid3.sourceforge.net/http://www.omino.com/sw/qt_tools/http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/

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Storing MetadataPBCore

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Thank You

Questions?

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