Final version of the report sent to PREFORMA Consortium:
MediaAreaConch_DesignReport.pdf
This report serves are our primary deliverable for the Design Phase (phase 1) of our participation in the PREFORMA project. It contained our revised design report, technical plan, and functional requirements to be used to implement a strategic and well-defined phase 2.
MediaAreaConch_LettersOfSupport.pdf
MediaArea’s plan includes use of expertise from Artefactual Systems as well as the sponsoring of the implementation of our resulting tools into Archivematica. This appendix includes a letter of support for this plan from Artefactual Systems as well as Letters and Support offered by our reviewers.
MediaAreaConch_Appendix_Standardization.pdf
Through personal experience, our participation in FOSDEM, and discovery interviews and questionnaire we have found that Matroska and FFV1 often are perceived to have credibility issues within archival application. To address this in conjunction with the development of a conformance checker for this formats, we present this plan to facilitate the standardization of these formats through the IETF.
MediaAreaConch_Appendix_Interviews.pdf
MediaArea’s team conducted several interviews through the design phase, including vendors and archivists who use Matroska, FFV1, and/or LPCM. The process, questions, and notes from each interview are detailed in this appendix.
MediaAreaConch_Appendix_Questionnaire.pdf
As part of MediaArea’s discovery process, we posted a public survey to gather information about memory institutions, the application of OAIS, and use of relevant file formats. This report summarizes key findings and presents the raw data gathered from our questionnaire.
MediaAreaConch_Appendix_ConformanceCheckRegistry.pdf
The conformance check registry appendix details initial designs for a registry to express implementation checks and policy checks. This work will be substantially extended within phase 2, but initial work was performed in conjunction with designing the functional requirements of the conformance checker. Please consider this appendix partial but representative of the structure of an eventual registry of defined checks.
mediainfo_preforma.tar.gz
To demonstrate our ability to adapt to and implement Preforma’s licensing requirements, we have already constructed a GPLv3+ / MPLv2+ version of MediaInfo in compliance with Preforma’s requirements. More details may be found here: https://github.com/MediaArea/PreFormaMediaInfo/blob/master/SourceCode/License.html