formatLocation vs. formatIdentifier
The examples on PBCore website are confusing to me. I am sure you are all shocked by this.
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Identifying parent-child relationship
Hola! Here's a scenario. Archive master is 16mm. Preservation master is Beta-SP. We want a DVD copy. We make that off the Beta, not off the 16mm. Where in the instantiation record for the DVD does it say what the instantiation parent of this instantiation is?Dealing with multi-part instantiations
Dealing with multi-part instantiations in formatGenerations attribute?
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PBCore Tool Quest
Back in 2005 I became somewhat obsessed with cataloging media on the job here at WILL Public Media. As the website manager, people would do things like hand me a videotape and say "can you put this on the web?" But what's on the tape? It became clear producers had no clue about the importance of recording actual information about their productions. Meanwhile I started learning about metadata and controlled vocabularies, and some of the cool things we could do with structured data on the web. This lead me directly to PBCore as the theoretical metadata standard for public broadcasting and beyond. If producers and stations could create PBCore-compliant XML records for their content, we could develop tools for automated exchange of deep information about media, and the media essence as well.
But we can't do much if nobody catalogs their stuff. So the question became what tools to use? Working with a graduate assistant from Library Science here at Illinois (the great Jimi Jones!), we embarked on a PBCore tool quest.