An Archivists' Guide to Matroska

Metropolitan New York Library Council

<A HREF="https://www.matroska.org/" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="https://www.matroska.org/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Matroska</A> is a flexible audiovisual container currently undergoing standardization work within the <A HREF="https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/cellar/charter/." TARGET="_blank" TITLE="https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/cellar/charter/." DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Internet Engineering Task Force</A> for preservation use. This workshop will review the architecture of Matroska and demonstrate many features relevant to archival work, such as: 
 
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<LI>Utilizing Matroska’s checksum features</LI>
<LI>Metadata management</LI>
<LI>Description of technical characteristics</LI>
<LI>Attachment management (logs, supporting documentation, related imagery, decoders)</LI>
<LI>Presentational control &amp; ordered editions</LI>
<LI>Validation and best practices</LI>
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Participants will work with tools such as ffmpeg, mkvalidator, mkvpropedit, mediaconch, and mkclean.
By the end of this workshop, particpants will be able to utilize Matroska for their audiovisual preservation projects.
We recommend participants bring their own laptops (Macs preferred) for this workshop.
 
About our instructor:
Dave Rice is an audiovisual archivist and technologist. Dave’s work focuses on independent media as well as open source in audiovisual preservation and quality control analytics. He has worked as an archivist or archival consultant at media organizations like CUNY, Democracy Now!, The United Nations, WITNESS, DCTV, and Bay Area Video Coalition. Dave is a graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation.