Archivematica Mediaconch integration webinar

Webinar given Oct. 18th 2016 with MediaArea, describing the MediaConch project and its integration into Archivematica

Posted on: 3 November 2016

Share

MediaConch is a policy and implementation checker for use with Matroska, FFV1 and PCM files. Through funding provided by the PREFORMA project, MediaArea has been collaborating on integrating this tool into Archivematica. So far, they have been working on:

  • making MediaConch an option for validating original file formats in Transfer
  • making a new micro-service to allow MediaConch to validate the results of normalization in Ingest
  • making new micro-services to allow users to upload a policy created with MediaConch to Archivematica, which Archivematica will check both original files and the results of normalization against.

They’ve also used this opportunity to think about how Archivematica models audio-visual material in the METS file and are exploring modeling bitstreams in the METS.

During the webinar,  Dave Rice and Natalie Cadranel from MediaArea  gave a demonstration of MediaConch, followed by a demo by Sarah Romkey from Artefactual of the implementation in Archivematica so far.

 

 

Visit the PREFORMA Blog

Visit the PREFORMA Website

Leave a Reply

Related Articles

MediaConch Newsletter #8 - Oct. 2016
What’s new in MediaConch 16.09, the latest release of the conformance checker for audiovisual files now available to download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal, the next appointments where you can meet MediaArea.net team (among which IPRES 2016 and the PREFORMA Experience Workshop in Berlin) and much more on this October release of the MediaConch newsletter.
No Time to Wait: Standardizing FFV1 and MKV for Preservation
Check out the results of the symposium organised In Berlin in conjunction with IETF’s 96th meeting and hosted by Deutsche Kinemathek, Zuse Institute Berlin, and MediaArea. The symposium brought together 70+ audiovisual archivists, technologists and format designers with a focus on the standardization of a preservation-grade audiovisual file format combination package.
MediaConch Newsletter #3 (January 2016)
Discover the new features included in the latest release of MediaConch, the forthcoming cooperation with Artefactual team to integrate MediaConch into their Archivematica software during the upcoming year, the ongoing work towards the standardization of Matroska and FFV1, and the next appointments. MediaArea is eager to build a community of collaborators and testers to participate in and use the results of the project.
No Time to Wait! Standardizing FFV1 & Mastroska for Preservation
A free, three day symposium of workshops & presentations on the standardization & use of FFV1 & Matroska in archives. Hosted by Deutsche Kinemathek, Zuse Institute Berlin, and MediaArea.net and supported by the PREFORMA project, the event provides an opportunity for format inventors, developers, specification authors, and archivists to collaborate and advance AV preservation formats.