Re: [libdb-develop] parts

[Morbus I. <mo...@di...>]

At 3:15 PM -0800 1/16/04, Andrea Leigh wrote:
>You may want to take a look at the Moving Image Collections (MIC) project,
>which contains a MIC/ViDe Application Profile database in Microsoft Access
>to create records in MPEG-7 and Dublin Core for digital video, audio and
>images, and it is available for download
>http://gondolin.rutgers.edu/MIC/text/how/cataloging_utility.htm.  I'm far
>from an expert on MPEG-7, but have been informed that: 1)  MPEG-7 uses XML
>as the language of choice for the textual representation of content, 2)
>supports creation of descriptions of dynamic and permanent segments,
>3)supports textual and non-textual data, and can marry both in indexing, 4)
>can reside native on an MPEG-4 stream, and 5) is inherently "FRBR-ized,"
>meaning descriptions can be structured in terms of work (e.g. Luhrman's
>Romeo and Juliet), expression (director's cut of Luhrman's Romeo and
>Juliet), and manifestation (VHS instantiation of director's cut of Luhrman's
>Romeo and Juliet).
>
>Some other brief notes:
>I was intrigued by the concept that Morbus brought up of contextualizing
>works by bringing together the film along with ancillary materials used in
>the making of the film, such as a script (conceptually more an archival
>descriptive model than a bibliographic model of access through related
>works). Howard Besser identifies this as a paradigm shift in user
>expectations (See "Digital Preservation of Moving Image Material?" <
>http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/~howard/Papers/amia-longevity.html>). A project
>attempting to bring that type of contextualization through virtual means is
>the British Film Institute's screenonline (http://www.screenonline.org.uk/).

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