EVIA Digital Archive Technical OverviewEVIA Digital Archive Technical OverviewTools EVIA Digital ArchivesBackground EVIA Digital ArchiveProject TimelineBackground EVIA Digital ArchiveUnits Involved at IUCreating the Digital ArchiveCreating the Digital Archive – Some StatisticsEVIA Summer Institute 2004Video Segmentation HierarchyEVIA Digital Archive Controlled VocabularyEVIA Digital Archive - StandardsApplication Development EnvironmentEVIA Digital Archive - DemoSearch & Browse InterfaceSearch & Browse InterfaceSearch & Browse InterfaceSearch & Browse InterfaceSearch & Browse InterfaceFuture Developments For More InformationEVIA Digital Archive Technical OverviewEVIA Digital ArchiveDLP Brown Bag: 7 December 2005EVIA Digital Archive Technical OverviewEVIA Digital Archive Development Team:William CowanNick HansenMike DurbinTim TuckerToolsEVIA Digital Archives• Video Segmentation and Annotation• Controlled Vocabulary Maintenance• Technical Metadata Collection• Search and Browse Web InterfaceBackground EVIA Digital Archive• Mellon Foundation funded Project• Planning Phase 2001 – 2002• Development Phase 2003 – 2005• Pilot Project to digitize video from Ethnomusicologists• Extensive use of video for field collecting • Desire to preserve this work• Provide ability to annotate this workProject Timeline• Planning Phase 2001-2002• Three meetings bringing together ethnomusicologists, archivists, librarians, IT professionals, video professionals, intellectual property experts• Development Phase 2003-2005• Goal: Build tools and set up infrastructure to digitize, annotate, and provide access to total of 150 hours of video from 15 contributorsBackground EVIA Digital Archive• Partnership between Indiana University and University of Michigan• University of Michigan – Responsible for digitizing video• Indiana University – Responsible for Application DevelopmentUnits Involved at IU• Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology• Ruth Stone• Archives of Traditional Music• Daniel Reed, Alan Burdette, Suzanne Mudge, Mike Casey• Digital Library Program• Jon Dunn, Will Cowan, Nick Hansen, Mike Durbin, Jenn Riley• UITS Digital Media Network Services• James McGookeyCreating the Digital Archive• Original Tape from Contributor– VCR, Digital• Dub to Digibeta Tape• Digibeta tape to 50 Mb Mpeg2 Digital File• 50 Mb Digital File transcoded to digital files used in the video annotation tool• 50 Mb Digital File stored in MSS• Digibeta Tape Stored at Archives of Traditional Music • If collector chooses, original tape may be stored at ATM as wellCreating the Digital Archive – Some Statistics• Size of 50 Mb Digital Master File• 10 - 15 gigs per hour of video• 100 – 200 gigs per collection• Effort to create Transcoded File• 8 hours per hour of video • Includes: dubbing digibeta tape, MPEG2 encoding, checksum generation, transmission and transcodingEVIA Summer Institute 2004• June 9 – 19, 2004 at Indiana University• Collaboration of ethnomusicologists, technicians, programmers, catalogers.• Contributions of 10 hours of video from 11 ethnomusicologists spanning 4 decades.• Ethnomusicologists segmented and annotated digital video, participated in workshops, presented their results.Video Segmentation HierarchyEVIA Digital Archive Controlled Vocabulary• Predefined categories chosen by ethnomusicologists and cataloguers• Predefined values based on authority sources chosen by cataloguers• Predefined values stored in tables in Oracle database and available to be selected in annotation application• As needed, new values would be added by cataloguers during the Summer InstituteEVIA Digital Archive -Standards• Metadata • METS – Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard• MODS – Metadata Object Description Schema• AES – Forthcoming Audio Schema for the audio tracks on video• AES – Forthcoming Process History Schema for Digital Provenance and History• Library of Congress - VMD Schema for VideoApplication Development Environment• Java using Borland JBuilder / Eclipse• Oracle 9.2 database for Controlled Vocabulary• Lucene for indexing• FEDORA Repository• Applications run in Microsoft Windows• Search and Browse – current releases of various browsers• Uses QuickTime and QuickTime for JavaEVIA Digital Archive - DemoThe Portable Ethnomusicological Editing and Video Segmentation ToolP E E V SSearch & Browse Interface• Requirements• Search annotations for relevant video segments• Browse collections by assigned vocabulary• Browse collections by structure/hierarchy• All within a Web-based environment• With minimal requirements placed on the users' system.Search & Browse Interface• Implementation• Struts• AJAX• Quicktime browser plug-in• JavaScript / DHTMLSearch & Browse Interface• Struts• Provides a robust server-side architecture for• Tracking a user's progress through the collection space• Modeling the user's session and providing state• Dynamically generating views to reflect the current state• Fits within the overarching infrastructure and standards of the DLPSearch & Browse Interface• Browser-based tools• HTML + JavaScript + Quicktime plug-in widely available to users—and mostly pre-installed• Web-based environment familiar to users• AJAX + DHTML allow user to interact with session model without incurring processing costs of full page request / render transaction• DHTML provides tools for integrating and extending browser plug-ins with the application displaySearch & Browse Interface• Keyword Search• Advanced Search• Results Display / Manage Results• Video Playback• Planned changed to annotation display• Planned changes for dock-able components• http://bl-ldlp-eviada2.ads.iu.edu:8080/CollectionsFuture Developments• New Search and Browse Interface• New Thesaurus Tool• New PEEVSFor More Information• Will Cowan: [email protected]• Home Page:•