Title
The Big Dance Archive - a part of the Big Dance project - a biennial festival that run from 2006 to 2012.
Description
The archive consists of various materials (images, videos, newspapercuts, business papers and so on), and videos are major records in the documenting dances (dance is ephemeral activity and videos are best for documenting the flow and actions). 21 partners took part in the Big Dance project and created records of dance activities. Most records come on DVDs and not always have metadata and descriptions.
Licensing
Arts Council England and GLA.
Owner
Belongs to Arts Council England and 21 partners.
Dataset Location
Some datasets were created for internal use only, however, the Archive website is under development and will be open for the public in November 2012. It will show the Big Dance collection together with description.
Dataset Champion
Irina Schmid
Issues brainstorm
The main need was to find the best solution for the recording and preserving videos.
Solutions are:
- Investigate what video cameras are used for making videos (in our case means contacting 21 partners who took part in the project and finding this information form them)
- Research what are best setting are needed to be set-up for each camera in order to take videos that are required for the archive storage.
- Investigate video formats and how they behave when it comes to the digital preservation.
- Create a detailed structure for metadata.
- For some videos (static types) the conversion from video format to audio would be best solution.
- Create a policy and guide book that would re-enforce a best preservation approach in partners.
List of Issues
Metadata can be presented in this form (taken from the video that was used in the workshop):
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Directory : .
File Size : 221 MB
File Modification Date/Time : 2012:01:23 14:35:04+00:00
File Permissions : rw-r-r-
File Type : MOV
MIME Type : video/quicktime
Major Brand : Apple QuickTime (.MOV/QT)
Minor Version : 2005.3.0
Compatible Brands : qt
Movie Header Version : 0
Create Date : 2012:01:23 14:35:00
Modify Date : 2012:01:23 14:35:03
Time Scale : 2500
Duration : 0:04:39
Preferred Rate : 1
Preferred Volume : 100.00%
Preview Time : 0 s
Preview Duration : 0 s
Poster Time : 0 s
Selection Time : 0 s
Selection Duration : 0 s
Current Time : 0 s
Next Track ID : 3
Track Header Version : 0
Track Create Date : 2012:01:23 14:34:47
Track Modify Date : 2012:01:23 14:35:03
Track ID : 1
Track Duration : 0:04:39
Track Layer : 0
Track Volume : 100.00%
Balance : 0
Audio Channels : 2
Audio Bits Per Sample : 16
Audio Sample Rate : 44100
Audio Format : wave
Matrix Structure : 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Image Width : 640
Image Height : 360
Media Header Version : 0
Media Create Date : 2012:01:23 14:35:00
Media Modify Date : 2012:01:23 14:35:03
Media Time Scale : 2500
Media Duration : 0:04:39
Graphics Mode : ditherCopy
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Handler Class : Data Handler
Handler Type : Alias Data
Handler Vendor ID : Apple
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Compressor ID : avc1
Vendor ID : Apple
Source Image Width : 640
Source Image Height : 360
X Resolution : 72
Y Resolution : 72
Compressor Name : H.264
Bit Depth : 24
Video Frame Rate : 25
Movie Data Size : 231652228
Avg Bitrate : 6.63 Mbps
Image Size : 640x360
Rotation : 0