| name | design-a-podcast-archive-workflow |
| category | media |
| description | Design a podcast archive workflow with stable episode identity, masters, derivatives, metadata, rights, accessibility, preservation, validation, and retrieval. Use when a podcast catalog must remain usable beyond its publishing platform. |
design-a-podcast-archive-workflow
When to use
- Use when preserving a show, moving hosts, consolidating seasons, or preparing a durable institutional archive.
- Do not treat an RSS feed or streaming host as the only archive.
Procedure
- Define collection scope, owner, retention, access classes, repositories, and recovery objectives.
- Assign stable IDs to shows, seasons, episodes, versions, segments, people, and source packages.
- Preserve lossless masters, edit projects, published derivatives, artwork, captions, transcripts, chapters, and checksums.
- Capture titles, descriptions, dates, contributors, languages, rights, consent, restrictions, corrections, and relationships.
- Record feed snapshots, redirects, platform IDs, analytics cutoffs, and the source of every metadata value.
- Validate decodability, duration, loudness, channel layout, transcript timing, links, rights, and package completeness.
- Replicate across independent storage, test restore and search, and schedule fixity plus format-obsolescence reviews.
Failure plan
- Quarantine corrupt or ambiguous versions, preserve original bytes and metadata, and repair through a documented derivative.
Worked example
A network preserves eight years of episodes while moving hosts, retaining masters, feed history, corrected transcripts, music restrictions, and stable episode links.
Done
- A podcast archive plan records identity, assets, metadata, rights, accessibility, storage, validation, retrieval, and stewardship
- Fixity, restore, search, playback, relationship, restriction, and feed-continuity evidence verifies the archive
