Webinar Recap: A Brief History of PBCore
This is the first post in a series about the PBCore webinar that the Education Team presented in October 2014. A recording of the webinar can be found here, and we’ll be recapping the event over the next few weeks. The webinar began with a brief history of PBCore, which is outlined here. PBCore began […]
PBCore: A How-to and Why-to Webinar | Recording from 10/23/2014
On October 23, 2014, the AMIA PBCore Advisory Subcommittee’s Education Team offered a webinar titled “PBCore: A How-to and Why-to Webinar.” Geared toward archivists, librarians, and anyone who has audiovisual collections at their institutions, the presenters offered contextual background; explained the benefits and reasons why PBCore is perfectly suited for managing audiovisual collections; offered step-by-step […]
Continue to provide PBCore feedback through GitHub issues!
As the PBCore committee analyzes data coming from our survey (thank you, community!) we wanted to take a moment to let you know how we’ll be tracking community feedback going forward – we welcome and encourage your continued input! In a short few steps, you can sign up for a Github.com account and submit “issues” […]
PBCore data exchange with the Pop Up Archive
You may have heard about the Pop Up Archive, which if you haven’t, you should. From my vantage point, they are solving a key problem of radio producers (and anyone creating digital audio) by providing: – A simple way to upload and preserve the highest-resolution digital audio files with the Internet Archive as the back […]
How to embed PBCore in data distribution APIs
As a well-defined metadata format, PBCore records can be embedded within and transported over almost any API.
How to relate complex parts and instantiations
PBCore may be used to express multiple instantiations per work (e.g., multiple tapes containing one program). It may be done in different ways, depending on what – if any – descriptive metadata should accompany each tape. If metadata to describe the content of each tape (i.e., the program segment material) is not needed, then the […]
How to express collections in PBCore
The introduction in PBCore 2.0 of the root element ‘pbcoreCollection’ directly addresses the need to “wrap” or collect assets for use in an XML-based publishing system like Really Simple Syndication (RSS). Use ‘pbcoreCollection’ to wrap any number of ‘pbcoreDescriptionDocument’ asset records for sharing or to express the structure of a collection of records.
How to create abstract assets (no instantiation)
PBCore 2.0 can be used to express “abstract,” or metadata-only assets. These assets simply do not have any instantiations, and might serve to represent a high level idea such as a television for which there is no single physical or digital instantiation. The descriptive metadata within such an assets may be referenced from within other […]
How to sequence records within relationships
When PBCore is used to list related items, it can also express the nature of their interrelationships. For example, when expressing an asset within pbcoreDescriptionDocument, use the sub-element structure of pbcorePart to define segments, stories or episodes. Then utilize the element structure within ‘pbcoreRelation’ to articulate any associations between assets. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <pbcoreDescriptionDocument xmlns="http://pbcore.org/PBCore/PBCoreNamespace.html" […]
How to embed a transcript within a description
PBCore does not limit the amount of data contained in its description-oriented fields, so it’s possible to includet whole transcripts. Transcripts and other lengthy descriptions are likely to contain characters that are problematic to include in XML, however. There are two solutions: 1) wrap or surround it within a CDATA structure: <pbcoreDescription> <![CDATA[This is how […]
