DIPP 2011

Bulgarian National Radio

1st DiPP 2011 Conference
September 11-14, 2011

Access
to the Sound Archives
of the
Bulgarian National Radio

Anelia Krandeva krandeva@bnr.bg
Silvia Emiryan silem@bnr.bg

Bulgarian National Radio 1040 Sofia, 4 Dragan Tzankov Blvd.

Outline

1. Introduction
2. Overview of the Sound BNR Archives
2.1. Radio Gold Fund
2.2. The Reference Department
2.3. The Phonotheque
3. Information Streams in the BNR Sound Archives
3.1. Data Deposition
3.2. Item Access in the Information Space
4. Use Case
5. Conclusions and Future Work

Introduction

The Bulgarian National Radio:

 The largest broadcaster in Bulgaria
 The richest historical sound archive in Bulgaria
 Two national channels, seven regional stations and

ten multilingual channels which broadcast abroad
 bnr.bg


Digitization of the Radio Archives

 Level one: Program Dalet+
 Second level: Transfer of disc media
 Third: The server database transfer to a long-term
storage

 Electronic catalog of recorded music
 Electronic database
 16 different indicators


EBU
European Broadcasting Union
 Switzerland in 2013 approx. 60,000 quarter-inch tapes with a total of
more than 30,000 hours

 Hungary Digital Archive System established in 2004, since April 2007,
only digitized material can be broadcasted

 Norway According to the Legal Deposit Act, Nasjonalbiblioteket
collect all types of information produced in NRK

 Spain the most important audio archive in Spanish language in the
world, the RNE sound archive: massively digitized, online access

 Finland annual growth up to 7 TB of storage capacity


Overview of the Sound BNR
Archives

The BNR archives:
750 000 sound records

 Radio Gold Fund
 Reference Department
 Phonotheque


The Radio Gold Fund

 Oldest record - from 1897, "Traditional dance" by Aloys Matzak
 Effects and testimonies of significant events in the socio-political
and cultural life of Bulgaria during the past 100 years - the voices of
writers, poets, actors, directors, composers, singers, musicians,
artists, public figures and politicians; all the meetings of the
National Assembly, the statements of presidents and prime
ministers of Bulgaria
 Member of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual
Archives IASA
 Status of National Sound Archive, the sound memory of the nation,
part from the Bulgarian cultural heritage


The Reference Department

 Written Documentation Center and Radio Library
 Operational archive of reference material to help radio
journalists
Books, journals, newspapers 120 000
Documents 450 m
Memorabilia 14 000

 BNR-SIS database since 2007
 In process of creating an electronic database and digital
archive (at present more than 80,000 records, new 2000
records every month)

The Phonotheque

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The Phonotheque

 The Phonotheque is devoted to sharing, promoting and
preserving Bulgaria's audio heritage.
 Different media carriers:
 Analogue ¼” polyester type 75%
 Analogue ¼” acetate type 15%
 digital files stored on hard disc or type array 5%
 DAT 2%
 Minidisc 1%
 Shellac disc 1%
 Compact disc 1%
 The work volume daily average: 650 units of sounds
needed for the national wide broadcast.

Information Streams in the BNR
Sound Archives
 Radio archives daily updating, storing, classification
 Directions of updating, storage and use of the archives
of the BNR
 Interconnection
 Since 2001 EBU minimum set of metadata for
retrieving material from broadcast archives, and for
exchanging. Tech 3293: EBU Core Metadata Set for
Radio Archives - aligned with the main metadata
standards of the broadcasting industry
(EBU/SMPTE/AES) and with the Dublin Core metadata


Information Streams in the BNR
Sound Archives

 Fifteen items of core metadata for Radio Archives:
Title, Creator, Subject, Description, Publisher,
Contributor, Date, Type, Format, Identifier, Source,
Language, Relation, Coverage, Rights

 All the metadata above were taken into consideration
when the electronic catalogue of the BNR was created.


Data Deposition

(1) Deposit copy of the units. It can be CD, tapes, DAT, etc.


Data Deposition
(2) Deposit the “information about the unit”.


The Metadata:

 Passport of the sound record: text
 Radio station: text selected from a list
 Signature: number
 Genre: text selected from a list (for example: opera, music)
 Speed: number
 Type: text
 Title: text
 Original title: text
 Type: text
 Performer: text
 Composer: text


The Metadata:

 Author of the text: text
 Author of the translation: text
 Language: text from a list
 Author of the arrangement: text
 Chores: text; Orchestra: text
 Conductor: text
 Area of Folklore: text
 Function of folk song: text
 Key words: text from a list
 Album title: text
 Duration: seconds
 Radio Gold Fund: yes/no

Item Access in the Information
Space
The selection of the search includes:
Signature: number
Title: text
Performer: text
Composer: text
Author of the text: text
 Author of the arrangement: text
 Chores: text; Orchestra: text
 Composer: text
 Area of folklore: text
 Function of the folklore song: text from a predefine list


Use Case

Concert conducted by Daniel Barenboim


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Conclusions and Future Work

 BNR turns to the hybrid technology
 Multimedia products
 Internet radio


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