Leading Edge Design & Systems Asset Management Suite Supports PBCore.HANOVER Hanover, city, Germany Hanover, Ger. Hannover, city (1994 pop. 524,820), capital of Lower Saxony, N Germany, on the Leine River and the Midland Canal. , Md. -- Leading Edge Design & Systems (LEDS) today announced its archive management products suite, Media Archive System (MAS)(TM) supports Public Broadcasting public broadcasting: see broadcasting. Core (PBCore The PBCore (Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary) was created by the public broadcasting community in the United States of America for use by public broadcasters and related communities. ), a comprehensive metadata (1) (meta-data) Data that describes other data. The term may refer to detailed compilations such as data dictionaries and repositories that provide a substantial amount of information about each data element. dictionary comprised of terms and descriptions used to create information that categorizes media assets. LEDS is the first commercial digital archive provider to fully support PBCore. MAS(TM) uses PBCore's data scheme to allow customers to quickly deploy a universal system that enables them to retrieve and easily share their work within the public broadcast community, including regional and national distributors, independent producers, institutions and Media Asset Management vendors. By integrating PBCore's standards, derived from the recently released PBCore version 1.0, LEDS provides an instant data model within MAS(TM)'s dynamic infrastructure, to allow archiving professionals to quickly build their content library. "Today's archiving systems need to be flexible," said Duane Shugars, vice president, Products Group, LEDS. "Ease of customization is needed in order to adjust to the growing emergence of multiple metadata standards. MAS(TM) not only supports core data models such as PBCore, Dublin Core A set of meta-data descriptions about resources on the Internet. Used for resource discovery, it contains data elements such as title, creator, subject, description, date, type, format and so on. Dublin Core descriptions are often included in HTML meta tags. and SCORM SCORM Shareable Content Object Reference Model (web-based e-learning standard) SCORM Shared Courseware Object Reference Model SCORM Shareable Courseware Object Reference Model but can also be easily modified as the standards mature and expand." MAS(TM) is a full-featured asset management framework that allows customers to quickly build an online repository (1) A database of information about applications software that includes author, data elements, inputs, processes, outputs and interrelationships. A repository is used in a CASE or application development system in order to identify objects and business rules for reuse. to search, add, edit, and share digital and physical assets. Support for PBCore's metadata model provides a uniform way of describing and sharing audio, video, and other multimedia data. About Leading Edge Design & Systems and MAS(TM) LEDS has provided intelligence applications, technologies, and services for over 20 years, and continues to focus on helping customers use their data effectively. LEDS' product suite, MAS(TM), is a Web-based, feature-rich yet user-friendly digital content management system that provides customers with an affordable, flexible, and easily deployed solution for managing all types of digital and analog multimedia assets. |
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