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digital preservation infrastructure: providing new of opportunities for preservation, access and beyond
- 1. FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2016 - Warsaw Digital preservation infrastructure: providing new opportunities for preservation, access and beyond… Charles Fairall Head of Conservation British Film Institute Unlocking Film Heritage
- 2. Digital Past Over a decade of digital workflow at the BFI National Archive • Audio came first • Digital Operations team created • Arriscan film scanner • For-A LTO-5 recorders • LTO tapes stored on vault shelves
- 3. Digital Present In-house, end-to-end capability for digitisation of BFI National Archive collections
- 4. Film scanner • High volume, high fidelity scanning (2k) • Safe handling of delicate film • Continuous motion (not single frame) • Inherent image stabilisation • Compliments the Archive’s existing digitisation tools Digital Capability Film image
- 5. Digital Capability Sound Soundtrack scanner ProTools • Capture high quality digital image of the soundtrack • Uses image processing and software to remove defects – dust, scratches • Generate digital audio file • Digitise sound directly from positive and negative film • ProTools for editing and restoration
- 6. Digital Capability Post-production Grading, editing and finishing workstations • Grading software with grain management • Precision panel provides intuitive user interface • Reference picture monitor guarantees image fidelity • Clipster creates files for Digital Cinema distribution, BFI Player and range of file types
- 7. Digital Preservation Infrastructure New technology to digitise, ingest, preserve and provide access to BFI National Archive digital collections
- 8. How did we do it? • Peer review • Consultation with colleagues and partners • Requirements Document • Competitive Dialogue Procurement Digital Preservation Infrastructure
- 9. Digital Preservation Infrastructure Environment Data centre • Secure access control • Gas fire suppression • Cooling and aircon • Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) • 10Gb fibre connectivity
- 10. Digital Preservation Infrastructure Access storage Instant access storage for viewing copies, and work-in-progress • Instant playback of viewing copies in web browser • Safe storage of work-in- progress for digital operations • Hugely scaleable (700TB now, but scales to 20PB) • High performance and speed (200 GB per second)
- 11. Digital Preservation Infrastructure Long-term archive data storage • Two copies of preservation files, geographically separated • Open and enterprise tape types to achieve both archival resilience and performance • Eliminates manual handling • High capacity, low cost-per-GB • Fast, durable, robust • Self-migrating to successive tape formats in roadmap
- 12. Digital Preservation Infrastructure Ingest + access Media Asset Management (MAM) • Give access to viewing copies in web browser to BFI staff • Integrate with CID • Ingest from DPI workstations • Automatically create viewing copies and thumbnails • Permissions based access to master preservation files
- 13. Transforming the Archive Charles Fairall Head of Conservation BFI National Archive Unlocking Film Heritage