(Please excuse duplication. This announcement is sent to several
lists.)
The National Archives Digitization Services Branch (
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/products/ ) recently completed a
project to improve the technical infrastructure options for reformatted
video in the cultural heritage community and is pleased to release the
final products for use by other institutions and the public. This
project was strongly supported by AudioVisual Preservation Solutions (
http://www.avpreserve.com/ ) (AVPS) and developed in conjunction with
the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (
http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/ ) (FADGI). The National Archives
hopes that these tools and applications will not only be useful, but
also enhanced by the larger community of cultural institutions.
reVTMD is an XML schema specifically addressing the needs of
reformatted video in the cultural heritage community. This schema draws
from several existing schemas including videoMD and PB Core.  It also
adds value to the community through the inclusion of parseable
structures to record capture history data which would include critical
information such as make and model of playback and capture devices.
reVTMD is now available on Archives.gov (
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/products/reVTMD.xsd ).
MediaInfo ( http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en ) now includes support
to extract technical metadata from a wide variety of video file formats
and wrappers, populate the reVTMD schema and export the data as a reVTMD
schema compliant XML file.
AVI MetaEdit builds on the functionality of the popular open source BWF
MetaEdit ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/bwfmetaedit/ ) tool developed
by AVPS and FADGI in 2010. Mirroring what BWF MetaEdit does for
RIFF-based Broadcast WAVE format (BWF) audio files, AVI MetaEdit
supports embedding and validating metadata in RIFF-based AudioVisual
Interleave format (AVI) video files. AVI is the current format choice (
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/products/reformatting/video.html )
for creating preservation masters within the Digitization Services
Branch at NARA. NARA is working with FADGI to finalize embedded metadata
guidelines for reformatted video as supported within AVI MetaEdit. AVI
MetaEdit is now available on NARA’s GitHub (
https://github.com/usnationalarchives ) site. 
 
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Kate Murray
Digitization Process Development Specialist
Digitization Services (IDS)
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
301-837-2924
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