Quality Control Overview

Our quality control (QC) workflow leverages both automated and manual processes to ensure that digital assets meet our specifications. We perform automated QC on 100% of our deliverables, and manual QC on approximately 10-15%.

Our workflow incorporates the following open source tools:

  • Ajv: an open source JSON schema validator
  • BagIt: an open standard specification for packaging digital content; bagit-python is a commonly used implementation
  • FLAC Utility: an open source tool for lossless compression / encoding / decoding of audio files to the Free Lossless Audio Codec
  • Isolyzer: an open source tool used to verify the size of ISO 9660 images against Volume Descriptor fields
  • MediaConch: an open source specification conformance checker which uses MediaInfo
  • mpv: an open source, cross-platform media player
  • QCTools: a software tool that helps users analyze and understand their digitized video files using audiovisual analytics and filters
  • RAWcooked: an open source tool for lossless compression and reversible encoding of DPX image sequences into Matroska

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