Video Access Working Group

The mission of the ViDe Video Access Working Group is to expand access to digital video resources and to promote preservation and management of digital video resources through the use of shared, standards-based video metadata and search and retrieval technologies, and includes the following goals:

º Develop a flexible, scalable metadata architecture that supports evolving technologies and interoperates with any digital archive architecture or database technology.

º Employ and interoperate whenever possible with open standards in information management such as Dublin Core descriptive metadata standard, A-Core Administrative Metadata proposal, OAIS (Open Archival Information System), and ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registry.

º Develop multiple delivery systems for the metadata architecture.

º Provide extensive proof-of-concept testing through a video access web-based portal.

º Disseminate draft and final products to a wide audience of digital video developers and managers

º Encourage use of the metadata architecture through presentations, training and a significant web presence.