LONDON, FIAT/IFTA 2012: Presentation slide nosarchives.com

1. FROM CHALLENGES TO
SOLUTIONS

2. WE ALL WISH IT WAS LIKE THIS…

3. …BUT IT’S MOSTLY LIKE THIS

4. HOW TO COPE WITH IT?
 Stand on the shoulders of giants
 Leverage open source software
 Don’t over-engineer
 Fail, Learn, Adapt
 Repeat

5. SOME OTHER CHALLENGES
 Bandwidth
 How do you cope with large media?
 Meta-Data
 Semantic web or tagging?
 Compliance with standards
 Lovely idea, but… which ones?

6. BANDWIDTH ISSUE

7. HOW DOES IT WORK?
 Archive the hi-res media
 Via file drag and drop
 Create the meta-data
 Create watermarked low-res
 Publish on the external web site

8. THE METADATA DILEMMA
 The standard bodies way: semantics and
thesauri
 What we do: free text search and tags
 Is it the silver bullet of metadata?
 It works on Youtube, Vimeo and Google…

9. WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS
 Gamification of metadata entry
 Stars for tags – competitions
 Automatic tagging
 Faces with high occurrence
 Objects
 Make it easier to contribute to the archive

10. SPRING MEMORY – OUR SOLUTION
FOR OTHER ARCHIVES
 Packaged solution for small archives
 Small in resources and budget
 Not only software
 Spring Consulting – tailoring the solution
 Spring Services – delivering and support
 Spring Training – making you self sufficient

11. Fabio Torchetti
Fabio.Torchetti@nosarchives.com
IMAGES COURTESY OF…
Andrew Magill - Asja Boroš - Carissa Rogers
IK Koskinen - Natalie Maynor - Will Scullin