| One line summary | We need to auto-extract metadata from audio, video and image files for quality assurance and cataloguing purposes. |
| Detailed description | I) Quality Assurance: Material created by EAP projects must meet certain criteria. It is not always easy to discover, from a quick check of a submission, whether these have all been satisfied. It would be good to determine this at an early stage, so that corrections can be made. 2) Cataloguing: Information which needs to be included in catalogues must be accessed manually (e.g. opening a wav file and skipping to the end to determine track duration), which is time consuming. Our cataloguing activities would be more efficient if metadata could be automatically extracted, in a useable format. For example: EAP132: can we generate a list of audio files and their properties, specifically their duration, bit rate? EAP078: As above, for video EAP336: images submitted at 240ppi, which is too low; it would be useful to be able to flag up images which don't meet our spec. |
| Issue champion | John Salter, Matt Ruane |
| Possible approaches | Pre-existing tools for this? Examples please! |
| Context | |
| AQuA Solutions | AQUAdio - characterization of user-generated audio field recordings |
| Collections | EAP |
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