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----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Smolian" <[log in to unmask]> > Metadata as related to recording is a buzzword. In the audio context It means, as I understand it, content information, engineering data for the recording event, and/or the details of the source sound carrier and what has been done to it in this stage of the preservation process. > > There are various projects underway to define what goes into this and where. There is an AES standard (I forget the number) for broadcast but not for other purposes. This standard is currently being adjusted for its own needs by NPR. > > I assume AES is working on one for rerecording and something will emerge in due course. > > The present question is how this information is to be added to what is being recorded when the soundfile is being made into a CD or other preservation medium. > > It's format has to be retrievable and visible on a screen and be able to be printed when the preservation medium is played back. > I'm assuming this has to be added to the data file through the digital work station. I've been suggesting for years that ARSC consider standardizing, at the very least, field names and sizes for catalguing databases. In fact, I've offered to do or set up a program on this subject. This could then could be used to create metadata by excerpting desired fields digitally...anything from a couple of fields to entire data records. When the data records were in a standard format, excerpted data would also be thus! Steven C. Barr