FIAF Commissions' Thursday Workshops
Fourth 2024 workshop
“No database required: Storing and accessing metadata in a common/generic way”
Duration: 2 hrs
Organized/presented by: Adelheid Heftberger (Host, Head of the CDC), Peter Bubestinger (AV-RD)
Limited to 20 participants.
Target group: Everyone interested in exploring innovative ways for storing metadata and thinking out of the box when it comes to databases. Experience with cataloguing is beneficial but not required. Just bring your curiosity and questions! May be particularly interesting for archivists with a limited budget and/or no database system yet.
Content: Imagine being able to:
- seamlessly annotate any data. Anywhere. (key/value + relationships)
- basic and interoperable (as moving and renaming files/folders)
- copy/move/merge any data from anywhere (without having to worry about file/folder naming and structure)
Peter will present existing, standard - yet overlooked means for storing key/value metadata on any file - regardless of its data-format - in a common, generic way. As application independent as reading-and-writing a filename or a folder path. In combination with some technologies "borrowed" from Big Data setups, we may be looking at a common blue-print for a metadata+storage system that allows dissolving the typical collection-type- and institution-barriers in a surprisingly simple and elegant way.
Registration Form
Please use the form below to register for the forthcoming Commissions' Thursday Workshop. No fee will be charged, but places will be limited, for reasons of participant comfort and interactivity between participants and speakers. Should there be more applicants and places available, a selection will have to be made by the organizers on the basis of the information contained in the form, so please fill it in as rigorously as possible. Note that submitting this completed form does not guarantee your participation in these workshops.
The deadline for submitting the online form is 30 September. Selected candidates will be notified by email and will be given their preparatory homework (if applicable) by 7 October.
