Have a look into the BBC archives.

1. FROM TAPE TO FILE BASED
Fiona Macbeth
BBC
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2. The Archive Today
3 million finished programme tapes
140,000 hours of
digitised archive programmes
Over 1 million
sound recordings
6 million photos
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3. Storing and sharing material…
A N AT I O N A L E N T E R P R I S E
SALFORD
BRISTOL
LONDON
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4. Tape based Prog & Rushes Archiving
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5. File based Prog & Rushes Archiving
Delivery & Archive
Post Production
Capture
Web
Shooting ratios!
Fully External Workflow
Camera
Cards
Fully Internal Workflow
Hard Drives
External Edit/Internal
back up
Optical
Discs
Hard Drives/LTO back
ups
RDA
FBD
Sport
Local
Rushes
Store
News
Digitised
Programmes
Digital
Archive
?
E2E Digital looking at central & local
solutions
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6. Current Challenges
File management during production
 Organising content as soon as it’s been shot
 Keeping it organised through-out production
 Managing content on different storage devices
Metadata
 Getting the right metadata sets
 Migration from one system to another
 Interoperability between systems
Selection, Retention and Access
 Storing the content after productions have finished – finding a route to the
archive
 Having the tools to select content and only keep the content worth keeping
 Having the ability to set a ‘review date’ on content being stored
 How to get back to material in the absence of a digital archive
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7. The good news...
Jupiter is the BBC News digital
production system
Radio has its own digital archive
But….
No central digital television archive
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8. What are we doing in productions?
Production
Tracking
Metadata
Retention
Management
Legacy Tape
Management
Photo
Archiving
Web Archiving
Records
Management
Archive
Selection
Archive
Research
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9. What else is happening?
• File based delivery project
• Online archive database (Fabric) which is ready to
be linked to a digital archive
• Piloting file based upload from the archive
• Selecting stock shots during production
• Collating and searching logging information
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10. The road ahead…
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Fiona Macbeth: “FROM TAPE TO FILE BASED”

11. FROM TAPE TO FILE BASED
Fiona Macbeth
BBC
Get in contact: fiona.macbeth@bbc.co.uk
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