Standards, AXF, and Desigining Data for Long Term Survival

Standards created the physical and file-based media whose content we preserve. Standards are now taming the wild west which exists with the vendor-specific technology-based data sets of digitized content now being created, from audiovisual files to metadata, to cataloging records. But what about the data as a whole? How you plan, select and implement data storage hardware and software determines your data set's long term survivability. This session will cover: How to design a data set for the long-term survival both of the content itself and other data set being stored over time; The new data archiving standard AXF (the Archive eXchange Format, SMPTE standard 2034-1), how its designed for long-term data survival, the current & future hardware & software problems it's designed to solve, and how it is being implemented; How to design workflows and choose technologies and/or data set vendors wisely.

Speaker: James Snyder, Library of Congress

AMIA 2016
November 9-12, 2016
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania