Significant characteristics of audio files
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From Florida Digital Archive WAVE preservation Action Plan:
- WAVE exhibits the following significant properties 1. They are the significant properties which the FDA intends to preserve when adopting migration policy in the future.
- Content: Duration and number of channels.
- Context: Title and creating application information.
- Behavior: N/A
- Structure: Channel relationship (channel mapping).
- Appearance (Rendering): Sampling frequency and bit-depth.
| property value | component | property definition | constraint unit | datatype |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duration | Content | |||
| Number of channels | Content | positive integer | ||
| Channel mapping | Structure | |||
| Sampling frequency | Rendering | |||
| Bit depth | Rendering | the amount of data recorded for each pixel | bits | positive integer |