1. A/V in
CURATEcamp AVpres 2013
April 19, 2013
via Google hangout and Youtube
Courtney C. Mumma, MAS/MLIS,
Archivematica Product Manager and Systems Analyst

2. What is Archivematica?
● digital preservation/curation system
● designed to maintain standards-based, long-
term access to collections of digital objects
● uses a micro-services design pattern
● free and open-source (AGPLv3)
● supported by Artefactual Systems Inc.

3. What is Archivematica?
● allows users to process digital objects from ingest to
access in conformance with the ISO-OAIS functional
model
● creates high-quality, standards-compliant Archival
Information Packages (AIP)
● provides
– an architecture for implementing preservation strategies
– a framework for evaluating and implementing format
policies

5. `
monitor and control
web MCP micro-service
server server processing clients
fileshare
digital curation
AIP
micro-services success
watched
directory
error DIP
web-based dashboard python FOSS
scripts tools
transfer of
or digital objects
SIP & metadata

6. Preservation planning
● a two-pronged approach:
– Normalization on ingest
– Preservation of the original file to support future
strategies such as migration and emulation
● normalization relies on format policies based on
an analysis of the significant characteristics of file
formats
● A format policy indicates the actions, tools and settings to
apply to a file of a particular file format (e.g. normalization to
preservation and/or access format)

7. Archivematica format policies
● criteria for selecting default formats:
● Non-proprietary
● Freely available specifications
● Widely used/endorsed by major repositories
● No compression/lossless compression
● Tools available to write and render the format
● format policies will change as community
standards, practices and tools evolve.
● upcoming Format Policy Registry (FPR) will allow
users to add local format policies, download
defaults/ updates and monitor statistics

8. Video in Archivematica
● Preservation Format
– FFV1/PCM in Matroska wrapper (MKV)
● FFV1 a completely lossless video codec
● Matroska (pronounced maTROSHka) is an open
standard free video container format which can hold a
large number of video and audio codecs
● Access Format
– MPEG-1/MP2
● Normalization tool
– FFmpeg

9. Motion JPEG 2000 (MJPEG2K)
● emerging as a preferred format for video files
● great example of how FPR could be used to add
format policies
● encoding JPEG2000-MXF video (added to wiki by
Misty de Meo)
– can be added as default workflow to local implementtion
– can be shared via the future FPR
– statistics about normalization results recorded
– possible future default for Archivematica

10. PRONOM
Format Policy
Registry (FPR)
UDFR
API GUI
?

11. More information
● Video:
https://www.archivematica.org/wiki/Video
● Format policies:
https://www.archivematica.org/wiki/Format_policies
● Format policy registry (FPR):
https://www.archivematica.org/wiki/Format_policy_r

12. http://archivematica.org