Audio archiving and content management

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Audio archiving and content management

• A pragmatic strategy to digitizing production
  archives

Joint Technical Symposium 2004, Toronto Nicolas
Hans, Dalet - nhans_at_dalet.com Johan de Koster,
Radio Netherlands johan.dekoster_at_rnw.nl
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Fact
One hour of digital audio requires 692 MB of
storage in 16 bits at 48 KHz
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Fact
By 2020, one Petabyte will cost 100 Euros 1 PB
is 1000 TB or 1.000.000 GB
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Fact
One petabyte will hold 1.4 million hours of
audio165 years of continuous broadcast!
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Question
Who uses a digital audio production and broadcast
system?
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Question
Who has an on-line digital audio archive?
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Fact
Archive departments are always in the basement
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Fact
The digital wave creates a new ecosystem for
archives
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beholders of the collective memory in a digital
world
return on investment
Interactive on-line services
asset distribution
digital rights management
business re-engineering
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Five pillarsto a pragmatic archiving strategy
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the network is the medium
todays programming is tomorrows archives
archives must move out of the basement
media must be turned to assets
distribution is the key
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The network is the medium
rule 1
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Tapes
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more tapes
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57 of archive departments have started to move
from tapes to CDs (source IASA survey)
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Fact
Although CDs are cheap,they are an economic
absurdity
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on-line archives are cheaper to maintain
simplify disaster recovery
fight technology obsolescence
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Todays programming is tomorrows archives
rule 2
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Fact
50 of archive requestsare for programs
broadcast in the past 12 months
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day-to-day archiving is more important than
digital migration of legacy archives
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improve service to production departments
free-up resources
spear-head digital migration
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Move out of the basement
rule 3
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Fact
Production staff have little concern for
archiving
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metadata safaris
Who was the person you interviewed?
where is the original recording?
who recorded this piece?
How do you spell her name?
What is her title?
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Plan
Ingest
Produce
Schedule
Broadcast
Archive
Distribute
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Traditional metadata ingest points
Plan
Ingest
Produce
Schedule
Broadcast
Archive
Distribute
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Plan
Ingest
Produce
Schedule
Broadcast
Archive
Distribute
Metadata must be captured at all steps of the
workflow.
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Associated metadata is contextual it depends on
status of material and profile of users
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As a result, additional metadata can be inserted
at every step of the workflow.
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and rich media associated to titles so as to
provide enhanced radio programming.
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archivists must invade the production realm
automate the collect of existing metadata
explore automatic indexing
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Turn media into assets
rule 4
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Media RecordingTechnical MetadataDescriptive
MetadataRights informationAsset




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digital transfer of legacy archives takes time
storage is not an investment
metadata is more important than media
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Promote and distribute
rule 5
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create new revenue sources for archives
build new broadcast channels
implement distribution networks
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In conclusion
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the network is the medium
todays programming is tomorrows archives
archives must move out of the basement
media must be turned to assets
distribution is the key
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