Internet2/Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Sponsored:
Performance Archive and Retrieval Working Group

Digital Asset Management Subgroup

Charge

The Digital Asset Management Subgroup is charged with determining what to do with captured material. The subgroup will explore how to organize it, store it, and catalog captured material, as well as other related issues. The subgroup will create a database of captured material.

Considerations

• Ownership of content (owned, licensed from a vendor, third-party — as with electronic theses databases — etc.)
• Intended audience: different users will require different features and/or levels of formality in reporting (internal-only, for customers, for government and/or foundation use — as with creating an archive of a grant-related project — etc.)
• Complexity of captured event/final document(s) (are there several raw feeds from multiple recording devices, recordings that were captured over a period of time — as with rehearsal logs, distinct copies — possibly in different formats — for archival and everyday use, objects from one event captured in more than one medium, etc.?)
• As a corollary, format, duration and amount of intended storage media (recycled media vs. permanent preservation, file size constraints, optical vs. magnetic media, etc.)

Best Practices

• Need to determine what sort of metadata to collect at which points in the capture process (Dublin Core elements, genre-specific metadata, rights information, etc.)