Topics ● MediaMosa and the Archipel Project ● MediaMosa for Archives / eDepot ● MediaMosa and WCAG2 Compliancy ● MediaMosa and SURFconext ● MediaMosa and Clouds

1. MediaMosa Projects
Michel van de Ven
MediaMosa PMC Member

2. Topics
● MediaMosa and the Archipel Project
● MediaMosa for Archives / eDepot
● MediaMosa and WCAG2 Compliancy
● MediaMosa and SURFconext
● MediaMosa and Clouds

3. The Archipel Project
● Archipel: A network-centric approach to digital
preservation
● Multi-disciplinary research project, 2009-2011
● Belgian initiative including IBBT, University of
Leuven, University of Gent, FARO, VTI, BAM,
Descartes, Inuits, Krimson, KlasCement.
● MediaMosa selected as the central shared
repository; alternatives included DSpace,
Fedora Commons &c

4. The Archipel Project
● Shared repository for all participating institutions,
both small and large
● Provide a means to share & enjoy: all
organisations become each other's content
consumers and providers
● Common cultural heritage available and
accessible for all
● Open Source and Open Standards
increase chances of long-term
availability and accessibility

5. The Archipel Project
● VTI (Belgian Theatre Institute)
● Used Content Supplier Application (CSA),
MediaMosa Construction Kit (CK), OAI-PMH
● Storage, archival and metadata gathering for
historical interviews and performances
● 128 GiB DVVideo sources
● Provide MPEG4 and H.264 video's for web
● Provide stills and thumbnails for web

6. The Archipel Project
● VRT (Flemish Radio and Television)
● Used CSA, MediaMosa CK, OAI-PMH
● EUScreen material (TV archive),
3.5 TiB High-Definition sources
● Provide H.264 video's for web
● Provide thumbnailing

7. The Archipel Project
● Newspaper archive of Poperinge (Ypres region, .be)
● Used CSA, OAI-PMH
● Import, archiving and metadata gathering for historical
newspapers (World War 1 related)
● Automatic processing of 1.5 TiB of complex
PDF, JPEG and TIFF material
● In development: Workflows for matching master content
with derived content and doing cross-reference checks
● In development: OCR on images

8. MediaMosa for Archives
● Continuation of the Archipel Project, provides
strategy for MediaMosa as long-term solution
● Goal: provide deep support for relevant archival and
curation standards
● BagIt
● hierarchical file packaging format designed to support
disk-based storage and network transfer of arbitrary
digital content
● http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kunze-bagit-06
● Used by US Library of Congress,
Gent University, Stanford Digital Repository.

9. MediaMosa for Archives
● PREMIS Data Dictionary
The Data Dictionary defines preservation metadata that:
● Supports the viability, renderability, understandability, authenticity,
and identity of digital objects in a preservation context;
● Represents the information most preservation repositories need to
know to preserve digital materials over the long-term;
● Emphasizes “implementable metadata”: rigorously defined,
supported by guidelines for creation, management, and use, and
oriented toward automated workflows; and
● Embodies technical neutrality: no assumptions made
about preservation technologies, strategies,
metadata storage and management, etc.
● http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis

10. WCAG2 Compliancy
● Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/
● Initiative of
● Royal Kentalis Foundation, for hearing impaired
● Bartimeus Foundation, for visually impaired
● Goal: make MediaMosa fully WCAG2 compliant
● Mandatory in .nl for .edu and .gov now
● Will be mandatory in .eu soon

11. WCAG2 Features
● Standardised format for technical metadata
● Support for metadata on mediafile-level
(in addition to metadata on asset-level)
● Caption and subtitle support (playback, editing)
● Generating captions, using sophisticated
speech-to-text technology from the Leuven
(.be) and Twente (.nl) Universities
● Support for audio descriptions,
and recording them live

12. WCAG2 Features
● Support for video annotations (text, graphics)
● Support for sign language interpreter video,
both as a separate track and as an overlay
● Generalisation of mediafile type support
● Support for free tagging on mediafile level
● Ready-to-use packaged MediaMosa distribution
including all relevant tools and software

13. MediaMosa & SURFconext
● SURFconext =
OpenSocial + Federated Identity Services
● Major new platform by SURFnet
● Dedicated session later today
● Essentially: MediaMosa will support
SURFconext in the next release
● MediaMosa will be one of the main
Digital Asset Management
providers in the SURFconext Cloud

14. MediaMosa and Clouds
● MediaMosa is ready for the Cloud
● Designed as a webservice platform (REST)
from the ground up, and adding more Cloud-
specific features every day
● MediaMosa has-a Cloud
● MediaMosa is-a Cloud
● Support the SURFnet GreenQloud initiative

15. Q&A
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