The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) is one of the world’s largest specialized libraries in the fields of engineering as well as architecture, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics. Since born-digital videos, video abstracts or video supplements have become an important part of scientific communication, TIB has to cope with the management of a fast growing collection of digital assets. TIB systematically collects audiovisual media such as computer visualizations, research laboratory experiments, simulations, interviews and recordings of lectures and conferences, and preserves it as cultural heritage. TIB also holds a historical film collection (digital / analogue) of almost 11,500 research films, university teaching films and documentaries, some of which date back to the 1910s.
Keeping pace with user demands regarding e.g. streaming videos and the re-usage of metadata, TIB has modeled an end-to-end workflow for the management of born-digital audiovisual content across its lifecycle. This includes an infrastructure for acquisition, indexing, digital preservation and access to videos as well as metadata in a machine-readable way (RDFa >by May 2016). TIB makes its collection and metadata freely available via its AV-Portal (tib.av.eu). The portal links the current state of the art of relevant multimedia retrieval technologies (text-, speech and image recognition) with semantic analysis in order to improve the discoverability of videos and video segments.
This paper will draw on the user demands and challenges regarding scientific videos and the TIB AV-Portal as a case study of born-digital collection management that successfully supports authors and recipients in their research work.
Institution:
German National Library of Science and Technology
Country:
GERMANY
Presentation type:
spoken paper
Date:
27 Sept Tuesday
Start time:
1130
Venue:
LoC Madison Building: Montpelier Rm.
Abstract: