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Beyond Text: Libraries Create and Deliver Access to Rich-media Collections, January 26, 2005, 8 AM to 9 AM Pacific. Presented by Marshall Breeding
Today's information environment goes far beyond plain text. Some of the more compelling content comes in the form of digital images, sound, and video. Libraries interested in building well-rounded collections need the ability to incorporate all these types of resources.

Based on his experience with the large-scale digital video collections of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive and other multimedia collections at Vanderbilt University, Breeding will present an overview of the issues, standards, and technologies surrounding rich media formats. He will describe some of the personnel, hardware, software, and other infrastructure needed to successfully tackle a digital project.

Thanks Dynix for this series of talks.




- Search And Discovery
The archived version of Defining Web-Scale Discovery: The Promise of a Unified Search Index for Libraries is now available.?Why can?t I search the library the way Google searches the Web??Librarians have been fielding that question for more than a decade...

- Video Annotation
Integrating Contextual Video Annotation into Media Authoring for Video Podcasting and Digital Medical Records by I-Jong Lin and Hui Chao is a new HP report.In this paper, we demonstrate how rich media annotation can enable two new applications for video...

- Open Content Alliance
Here is a new digital text initiative, the Open Content Alliance.The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build...

- Metadata
In the current ASLIB Proceedings "Metadata-based access to multimedia architectural and historical archive collections: a review" by Jeroen Bekaert,; Dimitri Van De Ville; Boris Rogge; Iwan Strauven; Emiel De Kooning; Rik Van de Walle.A summary of the...

- Opac
"Using a Web OPAC to deliver digital collections" by Eileen C. Mathias appears in Online Information Review (2003) vol. 27 no. 1 pp. 28-36 The Ewell Sale Stewart Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences has just completed a major digital imaging project....



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