Digital Asset Management With Free And Open Tools
By: AVP
June 8, 2008
June 8, 2008
David Rice and Mike Castleman represented Democracy Now! at the 2008 AMIA Digital Asset Symposium presenting on the integration of open source technology and Free Software in efforts to record, disseminate, and archive moving image media.
The presentation included references to:
- Tools for Recording: dvgrab, cron, vidi
- Tools for Transcoding and Wrapping: ffmpeg, mplayer, MP4Box, ffmpegX, x246 for Quicktime
- Tools for Online Media Accessibility: The Internet Archive, blip.tv, Miro
- Tools for Migrating AudioVisual Data from Tape-Based Digital Media: DATXtract and Live Capture Plus
- Tools for Backup and LTO Management: Bacula
- Metadata Extraction Tools: MediaInfo, getid3, qt_tools
- Metadata Standard: PBCore
- DAS (PDF)
