MediaConch Newsletter #8 (October 2016) Happy Fall From MediaArea!… [continue]
Policies vs Reality One of the key requirements of the PREFORMA Challenge is the creation of policy checkers to verify whether a file matches the acceptance criteria for long-term preservation by memory institutions. In MediaConch, the policy checker integrates a policy editor so that users may create, edit, and apply policies to their audiovisual collections. For example, a memory institution could… [continue]
MediaConch Newsletter #7 (September 2016) Happy September From the MediaArea Team!… [continue]
No Time to Wait: Standardizing FFV1 and Matroska for Preservation Photo credit: CC BY-SA Erwin Verbruggen Introduction No Time to Wait!: Standardizing FFV1 & Matroska for Preservation was a symposium intentionally overlapping with Internet Engineering Task Force’s 96th meeting, held in Berlin. No Time To Wait! was held on 18-20 July, 2016 and hosted by Deutsche Kinemathek, Zuse Institute Berlin,… [continue]
MediaConch Newsletter #6 (July 2016) Happy July From the MediaArea Team!… [continue]
MediaConch Newsletter #5 (June 2016) Happy Summer From the MediaArea Team!… [continue]
MediaConch Newsletter #4 (April 2016) Happy Spring From the MediaArea Team!… [continue]
MediaConch Newsletter #3 (January 2016) Happy New Year from the MediaArea team! New Release What’s new in MediaConch 15.12? Database support introduced With an introduction of a database built into the GUI, the most noticeable improvement is speed. Instead of parsing a file every time it is analyzed, it will only be parsed once, with subsequent policies then applied to the pre-analyzed content.… [continue]
MediaConch now has a logo! MediaConch now has a logo! Its absence was growing larger and heavier with each release that borrows the MediaInfo logo or relies on a shell emoji. MediaConch’s sibling software projects under PREFORMA, DPF Manager and veraPDF, have had beautiful logos since the beginning. Below, MediaConch team member Ashley will discuss the development process for the MediaConch logo… [continue]
Building a Conformance Check Framework for the Future Although initally focused on a select set of file formats, the vision of the PreForma project is to build conformance checkers that are well-prepared to expand to incorporate support for other file formats. Many aspects of checking the conformity of digital files are complex, involving the comprehensive parsing of file formats, interpretation of… [continue]