Video Data Management System VDMS Archives, Preserves and Provides Online Access to NOAA Digital Vid

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Video Data Management System (VDMS) Archives,
Preserves and Provides Online Access to NOAA
Digital Video and Image Data
Anna Fiolek, Metadata Librarian
National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA Central
Library Silver Spring, Maryland Projects e-mail
vdms_at_noaa.gov Images from NOAA Photo Library
http//www.photolib.noaa.gov/
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OER IPT/VDMSVDMS Objectives

• Collaborate with NOAA librarians, data managers,
  and scientists from different NOAA offices and
  programs.
• Use or extend existing library tools, guidelines,
  and metadata standards to support new media
  formats digital video, digital image, and
  digital text documents.
• Enhance data access and metadata sharing between
  NCL NOAALINC, NODC Ocean Archive System (OAS),
  and NCDDC MerMaid catalogs, Digital Atlas, CoRIS,
  and ASFA.

• Provide timely online information about NOAAs
  Office of Exploration and Research video data to
  the general public.
• Educate our Nation about NOAA oceanographic
  expeditions and underwater explorations through
  digital video and related information.
• Archive and preserve unique video and related
  data for future generations.

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VDMS Mascot Charlie the Crab
Microscopic video clip by Jerry McLelland
(Investigating Charleston Bump 2003 Expedition)
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NOAA OER Explorations 2001-present

• 5-12 Signature Explorations per year.
• 1-12 Summary Explorations per year.
• http//oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/
• VDMS
• archives and provides, either online or
  off-line, access to over 3000 OER digital video
  tapes and DVDs, and over 300 video highlights and
  clips.

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OER Cruise Products Received in VDMS

• Original/copy of the digital video tapes from OER
  signature and non-signature expeditions (MiniDV
  DVCAM DVD)
• Digital video highlights and clips (MiniDV
  DVCAM DVD online files)
• Digital images - data and highlights (JPEG, GIFF,
  TIFF on DVD, online)
• Video annotations (Microsoft Excel,
  comma-delimited text, Word, etc.)
• Video and image highlight annotations (Microsoft
  Word PDF)
• Cruise reports (Microsoft Word PDF)
• Lesson plans (DVD HTML PDF)
• Expedition Binders (Print)
• Post-cruise peer review publications, including
  journal articles (PDF)

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OER DATA FLOW to NOAA Central Library (NCL) and
NOAA Data Centers
Metadata in Digital Atlas
OER Cruise Data Distributed by OER Data Manager
to NCL and NOAA Data Centers
Metadata in MERMAid
Multi-Beam DATA for Archiving, Preservation and
Online Access
Original/Copy Digital Video DATA for Archiving
and Preservation
NGDC Archive System
Video Supporting and Related Documents for Online
Access
NOAA Central Library (NCL) - VDMS
Multibeam Survey Metadata
Digital Video Highlights
Oceanographic DATA (physical, chemical, and
biological) for Archiving, Preservation, and
Online Access
NOAA Central Library (NCL) Inventory Online
Video Annotations
Digital Image Highlights
Digital Images
NODC Ocean Archive System (OAS)
MARC21 Metadata in NOAALINC
Image Annotations
Cruise Reports
ATDB - Accession Number Metadata Template
Quick Look Reports
Education Lesson Plans
FGDC Metadata in NODC AOS
Web Sites and Related Home Pages
Online Bibliography of OER Publications
Peer-Review Publications
NOAA Central Library, Feb 25, 2009 AF
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Inventory of the OER Digital Video and Related
Data Received in the NOAA Central Library
http//oceanexplorer.noaa.gov
Jan.2008
Online data organized on server
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DV-12 (High-level Metadata Required Elements)
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Metadata Creation into WorldCat (First Search)
and NOAALINC (MARC21)
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Example of search results
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NOAALINC Collection-Level Metadata Record in
MARC21 Standards
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Life on the Edge 2005 South Atlantic Bight
Deep-sea corals
Digital video annotations
Library holdings include dive and tape number
from video annotations
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Captured metadata may also be searched on Google
? (save as Web Page, complete)
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Lets play some video highlights online
Video highlights (MOV, H.264 89 MB 15 min.,
37 sec. high speed Internet) Video highlights
(MOV, H.264 35 MB 15 min., 37 sec. medium
speed Internet) Video highlights (MPEG-4 87 MB
15 min., 37 sec. high speed Internet) Video
highlights (MPEG-4 33 MB 15 min., 37 sec.
medium speed Internet)
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Digital video highlights from Life on the Edge
2004 Expedition
Lesson Plans (G 5-12)
Cruise Report (Microsoft Word or PDF formats
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Still Images
Free floating Caribbean giant anemone
Aurelia aurita (Jellyfish) Operation Deep Scope
2005
Echinus tylodes (sea urchin) Life on the Edge
2005
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NOAA Library Video Lab (operational since 2007)
2 MAC-G5 workstations 2 Final Cut Pro Studio 5 2
Sony MiniDV Readers 2 Sony HD MiniDV Readers 1
DVCAM/MiniDV deck 1 VHS player 1 Digital Camera
Kodak Z102 10MP, 12X)
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SOP document to process video highlights/clips
using FCP
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Fragment of the document Crosswalk between FGDC
MARC21 - Dublin Core http//docs.lib.noaa.gov/O
EDV/VDMS_DOCS/Crosswalk022103.doc
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Three general types of standards, as viewed by
libraries
OLAC/MOUG 2008

• Data structure standards (e.g., MARC21)
• Data content standards (e.g., AACR2r)
• Controlled vocabularies (e.g., LCSH)
• MARC21 rendered to XML (MARCXML)
• Generally used as interim step between MARC and
  some other XML-based format, e.g. FGDC, Dublin
  Core, etc.

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Metadata Exchange FGDC - MARCXML - MARC21
NOAALINC - MARC21 Collection-Level (Parent
Record) created
WorldCat Database
CIMS Cruise Information Management System
NODC Ocean Archive System (OAS)
MERMaid
Dive-Level Metadata (Child Record) in MARCXML
standard
Dive-Level Metadata (Child Record) in FGDC
standard
Dive-Level Metadata (Child Record) in MARCXML
standard
Dive-Level Metadata (Child Record) in FGDC
standard
OE Digital Atlas
Dive-Level Metadata (Child Record) in MARCXML
standard
Dive-Level Metadata (Child Record) in FGDC
standard
NGDC Multibeam Survey
Dive-Level Metadata (Child Record) in MARCXML
standard
Dive-Level Metadata (Child Record) in FGDC
standard
CORiS Coral Reef Information System
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Library Metadata Links to NGDC Multibeam
Database, OE Digital Atlas and NODC Ocean
Archive System
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Digital Atlas Developed at NCDDC in Mississippi
http//www.ncddc.noaa.gov/website/google_maps/maps
OE.htm
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Video data on deep-sea corals enhanced by the
observations collected during expedition and
available via NODC Ocean Archive System (OAS)
example Life on the Edge 2003
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CoRIS metadata searches include Library metadata
via Z39.50 protocol
NOAA Photo Library
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VDMS Statistics (FY2008)

• Oct. 1, 2007- March 31, 2009

- 46.7 GB OER video and image data accessible -
over 512,000 online requests - 4.5 TB of
downloaded data

• Online VDMS resources
• Over 3000 video tapes and DVDs archived
• Over 32 video collections
• Over 300 video highlights and clips
• Over 8000 still images
• Over 100 related documents

http//oc3new/adpdocs/status/web/analog/lib/lib-mo
nthly.html
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Types of metadata

• Descriptive metadata (serve to describe
  properties of resources)
• Administrative metadata (help manage aspects of
  resources, such as preservation information,
  usage rights, or technical information)
• Technical metadata
• Preservation metadata
• Rights management metadata
• Structural metadata (Help the user to navigate
  within the resource or between related resources)

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