As presented by Bruno Burtre (NOA) at the 2019 FIAT/IFTA World Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

1. Coexistence of
(Asynchronous) Preservation Processes
in Archive Asset Management
CREATING
ARCHIVE
INNOVATIONS
Joint Technical Symposium,
September 2019
Silvester Stöger, NOA GmbH
s.stoeger@noa-archive.com

2. What does NOA do?
AAM Archive Asset Management
for long-term media archiving
• To preserve media and metadata
for the long term.
• 7,000 seats worldwide at various broadcasters
and archives.
ATT Archive Transfer Technology
for service providers, broadcasters, archives
• To digitize A/V carriers in the most efficient
and economic way.
• 4.000.000 hours of A/V legacy material
transfered with NOA tools.

3. Evolution of the usages…

4. The change for the Archives…
From… To… in the most economic way.

5. Physical
Archive
Long Term Database
Digital Archive
Storage
Production /
Distribution System
(MAM / PAM)
Migration of
Media &
Metadata
User Interfaces
Workflows managed
by AAM:
API
Selected replication
to cloud
Archive Asset Management (AAM)

6. Investigate the formats to preserve…

7. Problematic carriers VS unproblematic carriers
2 inch, 1’B & Films 1’C, U-Matic, Betacam, DV, VHS
10 to 20 % 80 to 90 %

8. Business Process
Carrier
Registration
Carrier
Logistics
Preservation of Accompanying
Materials
Carrier
Preparation
Digitization
Quality
Control
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9. Carrier Logistics
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Foundation to a constant throughput
• Archive -> Digitization -> Archive
• Avoid idle workstations / operators
• Traceability of carriers
• Carrier positioning system
• Central logistics space

10. Carrier Registration
Foundation for process management
• Basic carrier description
• UID (obligatory)
• Carrier type (obligatory)
• Title
• Description
• Attach barcodes
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11. Carrier Preparation
RTV, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Foundation for best possible digitization
• Assess if required
• Clean carriers
• Consolidate physical condition

12. Preservation of Accompanying Materials
Foundation for intellectual content description
• Record metadata of documents
• Scan of documents (envelopes, booklets, cataloguing
cards, cue sheets, etc.)
• Can be transcribed at later stage.
• Virtually preserve the physical integrity of the
carrier
RTVS Bratislava, Slovakia

13. Digitization
YLE, Helsinki, Finland
Atos for ORF, Vienna, Austria
Foundation of digital preservation
• Mostly possible in real time only
• Parallelization of capture stations
• Simplify ingest operator tasks
• Reduce ressources needed
• Record quality analysis information

14. Quality Control
Real-time traces of audio digitization (e.g. Azimuth, Peak Level, Noisefloor, etc.)
RF traces and ISR events to detect video transfer errors
Baseband QC at Atos for ORF, Vienna, Austria
The gatekeeper of the archive
• Quality control on all levels:
• Transfer QC
• Filebased (baseband) QC
• Process QC (maintain professional working environment)
• Use quality information recorded during digitization

15. Business Process
Carrier
Registration
Carrier
Logistics
Preservation of Accompanying
Materials
Carrier
Preparation
Digitization
Quality
Control
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TRANSFER
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16. Business Process
Carrier
Registration
Carrier
Logistics
Preservation of Accompanying
Materials
Carrier
Preparation
Digitization
Quality
Control
Intellectual Content DescriptionSegmentation
Selected Provision to Cloud
Automated Metadata Enrichment & Verification
Preservation Tasks
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TRANSFER
ARCHIVE
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MANAGE-
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17. Content Segmentation
Enable fast and exact access to segments
• Use track markers if available (e.g. CDs)
• Set markers for segmentation
• Intellectual decisions if not obvious (e.g. fades)
• Policy needed
• Ontologies needed

18. Intellectual Content Description
Add descriptive metadata for successful searches
• Use scanned accompanying materials
• Prelisten / Preview content
• Intellectual knowledge needed
• Avoid redundancies
• Create relations between items

19. Preservation Tasks
Carrier-free but not care-free information!
• Storage migration
• Consistency checks
• Offsite backup
• Disaster recovery strategy
• Etc.

20. Automated Metadata Enrichment & Verification
Deep archive analysis
• Speech to text, face recognition, object detection, etc.
• Enhance search results
• Humans needed to validate:
• profile data for analysis
• generated metadata

21. Selected Provision to Cloud
Feed contemporary distribution platforms
• No direct access to the archive
• Dedicated platforms for final customer
• Select publishable material (rights, quality)
• Chance for montization

22. Sharjah Broadcasting Authority
Implementing a digitization factory and video archive
• Installation 2017
• Long term Archive Asset Management
• Archive format ffv1
• Mathematically lossless
• Open source / no vendor lock
• No patent issues
• No license issues
• Integration to AVID Interplay PAM

23. Sharjah Broadcasting Authority
Initial Situation
• 1“, Umatic, Betacam SP, Digitbeta, etc.
• No barcodes
• Handwritten cue sheets
• No digital catalogue/database

24. Sharjah Broadcasting Authority
Carrier
Registration
Scan Cue Sheet Carrier Cleaning
Digitize Carrier Quality Check
Annotate
Metadata
Cataloguer Staff
Ingest Operators

25. Sharjah Broadcasting Authority
Carrier Registration & Scan Cue Sheet
• 16 parallel video channels
• Dedicated workflows managed in NOA mediARC
• Quality controlled video transfer
Carrier Cleaning
• All tapes are cleaned

26. Sharjah Broadcasting Authority
In-House Digitization & QC
• 16 parallel video channels
• Dedicated workflows managed in NOA mediARC
• Quality controlled in NOA QualityChecker

27. Sharjah Broadcasting Authority
Annotate Metadata
• All content catalogued from scratch
• Cue sheets transcribed as basis for cataloguing
• 15+ cataloguer seats, expanding
• Keeping seniors for their knowledge

28. Sharjah Broadcasting Authority
Final Repository
• Metadata: NOA mediARC
• Essence: Oracle DIVA
• Physical carriers sent to government archive

29. Sharjah Broadcasting Authority
Disaster Recovery
• Disaster recovery extension started in 2018
• 2nd location
• Complete essence and database replica
• 3 copies / 2 sites

30. Thank you for your attention!
CREATING
ARCHIVE
INNOVATIONS
Joint Technical Symposium,
September 2019
Silvester Stöger, NOA GmbH
s.stoeger@noa-archive.com