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“Digital Video Metadata: State of the Art”

Grace Agnew, MIC Principal Investigator, Rutgers University Libraries

ABSTRACT

Grace Agnew presents an overview of digital video metadata schemas and standards, including benefits and drawbacks to adoption.  In addition, she describes the MIC strategy for supporting metadata schemas for different digital video contexts.

PRESENTATION available in PowerPoint.

BIOGRAPHY

Grace Agnew is the Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.  She is the principal investigator of the NSF-funded Moving Image Collections (MIC) project, a union catalog and directory of moving image collections worldwide.  She is also the principal architect of New Jersey Digital Highway, the statewide cultural heritage information repository.  She is the author or co-author of books, articles and presentations on digital video, metadata and digital rights management.  She co-chairs the Video Access working group for the Video Development Initiative (ViDe).