The releases of concrete systems are planed from the results of MEMORIES (a project sponsored by the European Union). One of them is currently named “PAXIS”.
The PAXIS system intends to offer a set of facilities for acquiring audio contents (from analogue or digital sources) and releasing them in the form of small AXE’s [Autonomous eXchange Entities] being structured and semantically annotated (DCMI based and, possibly, with tailored metadata) and packaged in such a way that they could be exploited as SIP / AIP / D-DIP compliant with the OAIS standard (in particular, they can include the definition of their ontology’s and profiles).
The UNESCO, one of the partners of the MEMORIES project, intends to make available in open source the key elements of the system, in particular the definition of usual profiles, such as these for documenting musical, interviews and ethnographic contents. PAXIS is intended to be installed on small (one laptop) to medium (small network) platforms. The presentation will focus on the possibilities and novelties of the acquisition system; on the capabilities of shared exploitations obviously feeding OAIS based systems but also by exchanging AXE’s between PAXIS systems and with usual exploitation and archival systems; on the personalisation facilities allowing easily semantic annotation tailored (user defined) to a specific domain through the “profile” tool and on the flexibility in the selection of the wrapping technology (from simple ZIP to complex METS).
P⁴AXIS stands for Portable, Packaged, Persistent, Personalisable audio Acquisition, eXchange, Indexing and Structuring.