This report presents the findings of an ARSC Technical Committee study, coordinated and authored by AVPS, which evaluates support for embedded metadata within and across a variety of audio recording software applications. This work addresses two primary questions: (1) How well does embedded metadata persist, and is its integrity maintained, as it is handled by various applications, and (2) How [...]

PBCore Instantiationizer is part of a toolset for conforming extracted technical metadata to the PBCore 1.2.1 metadata standard instantiation element set. The automated approach to extraction and conformance of this element set allows for consistent application of standards to fields that require a strict level of control for usability while also relieving the burden from [...]

The YADA! Archiving & Preservation Grants Calendar (YADA!Cal) is a freely available listing of deadlines, reminders, links, and short descriptions of grants available for media archiving and preservation projects. AVPS has aggregated the grant information and is publishing it using the .ics file format via iCal Exchange, a free clearinghouse for the publishing of internet [...]

DV Analyzer is a technical quality control and reporting tool that examines DV streams in order to report errors in the tape-to-file transfer process. DV Analyzer also reports on technical metadata and patterns within DV streams such as changes in DV time code, changes in recording date and time markers, first and last frame markers [...]