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- Integration with existing UVA infrastructure, including NetBadge.
Creating accounts and teams is easy, and you can restrict access to UVA members.
- Highly detailed metadata capabilities.
Unlike YouTube, Dropbox, or other services, Audio-Video lets you record important details according to the PBCore schema. - Interaction with other projects through Subjects and Places.
Labeling audio or video entries with subjects or places lets viewers explore your project alongside related images, visualizations, texts, and more. - Transcription capabilities.
Audio-Video lets you upload and download transcripts of your media, including multilingual translations.
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Contributing to Collections
Acceptable File Types
You can upload files of less than 2GB in size that are in the following formats:
- .flv
- .asf
- .wmv
- .qt
- .mov
- .mpg
- .avi
- .mp3
- .wav
- .3gp
- .mp4
- .wma
- .mpeg
- .m4v
- .3g
If you need to upload files larger than 2GB, contact shanti@virginia.edu.
Adding and Editing Media
Check out the following guides:
Metadata
The scope of information you can attach to media in Mandala is much wider than other media storage applications. Metadata tracking in Audio-Video uses the PBCore schema. Public Broadcasting in the US designed the schema specifically for sound and video. This lets people understand and interpret media details across institutions. You can find out more at pbcore.org.
You can view metadata fields in the “Details” of a project, and edit them in the “Edit” tab.
Tracking Workflow
Large archival projects require tracking several tasks or modifications for each file in the collection. In the “Details” for the project, you’ll see several options for workflow tracking, including several generic fields (for example, “Media Problem #1”). You can assign specific issues to these generic fields internally, though you cannot change their names in the “Details.”
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