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National Fairground Archive

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Added by Richard Freeston · last edited by Paul Wheatley · on May 04, 2012 (view change)

Title	National Fairground Archive
Description	Large collection (~80,000) of digital image files (photos and scanned documents). TIFF, JPG
Licensing	Copyright in much of the material is held by the National Fairground Archive, but a significant proportion of content is 'orphaned'
Owner	University of Sheffield
Dataset Location	5 sample files and associated xml metadata on memory-stick
Collection Champion	Richard Freeston
Issues brainstor	Issues relating to the cataloging and ongoing management of, and accession to, a large (and growing) image-based collection of digital media files: migration of metadata to a cloud-based CONTENTdm asset management system best practice relating to accession of material from obsolete carrier formats best practice on handling moving image content Automated and scalable tools to manage the following elements of the preservation lifecycle would be extremely useful: identification of file formats (and where applicable, authoring software) recommendations for file format migration Quality Assessment of migrated files extraction of file embedded metadata Optional OCR of image content, and generation of suggested keywords to assist with item categorisation (possibly via natural language processing)
List of Issues	A list of links to detailed Issue pages relevant to this Dataset