FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2015 Vienna

1. Thinking the archives of 2020:
Opportunities, priorities, issues
An exchange between FIAT/IFTA Members for Benchmark, Synergies and to
promote Standards
Gerhard Stanz (ORF), Yasuhiko Iwasaki (NHK), Alberto Messina (RAI), Theo
Mäusli (SRG)

2. Schedule
Friday 9 october
16.00-16.10 Introduction to the main challenges: questions, state of the art and
opportunities on technical, organisation and political issues
Theo Mäusli
During 16.10-17.15 2020: What are your main Visions, Priorities, Roadmap, Worst
scenario: send your list priorities and new suggestions, via
Directpoll and twitter.
All, twitting and sending
answers to Directpoll
16.10-16.20 NHK, priorities and main issue Yasuhiko Iwasaki
16.20-16.30 RAI, as above Alberto Messina
16.30-16.40 ORF, as above Gerhard Stanz
16.40-16.45 SRG SSR, as above Theo Mäusli
16.45-17.30 Questions and common points, discussion, developing together a
topic list with priorities, possible roadmaps and main approaches
all

3. The Broadcaster Archivist’s Cahier de
Doléances

4. for Voting: max 5 x/vote
http://etc.ch/z2Ic

5. Storage
Formats
Rights
management
Traceability
Metadata
automation
User
interface
Workflows
Storage
medium and
migration
Architecture
Rights
management
FinancingOwnershipt
Enhancement

6. Storage and migration
• Magnetic or optical, … DNA?
• Backup solution?
• Cloud?
• …
Storage
medium and
migration
https://www.tbunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/dna-storage-451x292.jpg

7. Architecture
• One MAM System
• Different modules, Apps, SaaS, linked with a Bus
• External services?
Architecture?

8. Formats
• Store and deliver only standard format
• Store one format, delivering passing through
a transcoding service
• Store and deliver multiple formats
• …
Formats
For convergent use

9. Rights management
• Automation of workflows from SIP to DIP
• Promote free use of archives?
• National laws and agreements
• Creative commons?
Rights
management
Rights
management

10. User interface
• New generations of searching tools
• Individual user profiles?
• Push – pull?
• Desk services?
• More exchange between archives?
User
interface

11. Enhancement
• A new activity of archivists?
• Main criteria for success and
• Sustainability
Enhancement

12. Metadata automation
• Speech 2 text
• Image and face recognition
• Ontologie
• GPS
• Production metadata workflow
• Social tagging
• Cross all the Technologies and opportunities
Metadata
automation

13. Traceability
• Fingerprint
• Mpeg 7
• …
Traceability
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=fingerprint&view=detailv2&&id=E59C7D50D97A11A38DF883D3EA867D0
FB42312BA&selectedIndex=43&ccid=pY4d6xKk&simid=608014941461811131&thid=OIP.Ma58e1deb12a4997447
4fe0f6ccb50ce2o0&ajaxhist=0

14. Financing
Financed
• by programme and externals, when using archive material
• by producers for archiving their content
• as overhead of the whole institution
• by cultural heritage founds (law)
Financing

15. Ownership
• National audio-visual archives
• Another facet of Service public
• A private asset
• Mixed approaches (network between Broadcasters
and cultural heritage institutions)
Ownership
Broadcaster or
government https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Franzosen_Staatsschatz.jpg

16. Thinking the archives of 2020: Opportunities,
priorities, issues
Yasuhiko Iwasaki (NHK)

17. Possible Change of…
• Technology
– Big Data Analyzing
– Automatic metadata
– Adaption to Multi Device Market
– Expanding of archiving material
• Social Network
– How to get “Like” on SNS? Or How to be conspicuous ?
– User Generated Contents
– Context Mining for rich navigation
• Organizational and political issues
– Copy Rights, etc

18. Bipolarization of Future Archives
High Resolution
8K(4K)
HDR Cinema
High Res Movie
Light Resolution
&
Rich Navigation
Ubiquitous
Multi Platform
User Generated
On Demand
Two major cost pressure is…
1. Meta data management
2. Storage and BandwidthOptimized Preservation Transcodable Preservation

19. It's NOT just the tip of the iceberg
Value for market
Cost
Sank to oblivion
How to balance the preservation
cost and it’s value….That is the
question!!

20. How to decide our Priority ?
1. Responding to further increase of preservation
quantity
2. Responding to increasing transfer rate for the ultra
high-resolution material
1. Metadata and tagging work for the pre-digital age
content
2. Responding to a multi-platform market.
3. Responding to changes in the role of broadcasters.
Value centric strategy requires:
Preserve centric strategy requires:

21. It Depends…
• Each archive organization has its strategy of
“choice and focus”.
• NHK is more focusing to “Public Media” from
“Public Broadcaster” for now.
– That means more optimizing to services for Over
IP type…
• But look for 10 to 20 years, super high
resolution is also important.
• This Challenge is mutually contradictory.

22. Thinking the archives of 2020
Gerhard Stanz

23. Archives 2020
Archive Object
• Programmes / Products
• There is still a lot of „old“ in the „new“
• But still we expect …
• more Versioning / Granularity
• more Crossmedia
• more Metadata involved
• EPG, Recommender-Systems, Second Screens
• Archiving Websites prototype for New Challenges
• Presentation Layer vs. Raw-Material
• An Archive is not necessarily an Encyclopedia (which you can
anyhow find in the Internet)

24. Archives 2020
Metadata Automation
• Harvesting
• Data that are alraedy there in the production process
• Higly accurate and appropriate
• Teleprompter Text, Insert-Text, Texts froom Planning
Systems, Subtitles
• Mining
• Texts derived from other „Media representations“
• False Positives, False Negatives
• Relyability vs. Cost
• Adobe hast discontinued „Speech to Text in“ 2014
• Manual Annotation
• „Humans as a Service“
• Main cataloguing effort in ORF is „image description“ of
Material with extensive ORF-rights

25. Archives 2020
Storage Security
• Aspects of Security
• Operational Security
• Content Security
• Disaster Security
• Instances / Redundancies
• 1. Online
• 2. Online (Operational, Content)
• 3. Offline (Content / Disaster)
• Moste likely Disasster Szenarios
• 2nd Disaster during Rebuild of 1st Redundancy
• Unrecognized Software Errors

26. ©
Thank you for your attention

27. RAI
• Please Alberto, insert your slides

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RAI Archives: looking to the future
Alberto Messina, Laurent Boch
RAI – Centre for Research and Technological Innovation
FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2015
Workshop
«Thinking the archives of 2020: opportunities, priorities, issues»
Vienna, Friday October 9th 2015

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Summary
Current projects @ RAI archives
Looking to future documentation & access models
Storage for future archives – some thoughts

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Master Digitisation
reads barcode,
verifies statuds
check-in
betacam, IMX,
16mm films, etc
REPO
hasRights?
hasCopies?
whichMaster?
hasPriority?
hasEditorialValue?
isMadeUpOfReels?
hasIdentfiers?
makes additional disaster
recovery copy over LTFS
(RAI open source tool)
orchestrates reception
of digitisation output
production & archive
media factory
T3
transition-
to-tapeless
delivery
Output Format = MXF/ D10
10x Automated Digitisation
of Betacam+IMX
tape cleaner
3x
IMX/EVTR
let‘s see if it’s
really okay!
QC
Output Formats: MXF/XDCAM HD422 25P
and HD – HiQual – 422 10bits
10x Manually operated Film
Scanning Station
Facts:
1300K beta+imx tapes; 800K film items; (before
selection, expected 20% after);
start by 2015Q4 with 3 Robotics; at full steam by
2016Q1; expected time of completion 5 years.

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Rights Automation
Current issues
Various different systems and practices
Need to check with narrative textual clauses
Weak links between Rights and AV-material
Too many manual processes & duplication
Legacy systems / lack of flexibility
Lack of reliable /detailed information on
reuse of archival excerpts in new
productions
Challenges
Scope is Television, Radio, and Cinema
Handling the exploitation rights along their life-cycle
no ambiguity => no need to read again textual clauses
Continuously updating available rights in consequence of
 contract variants
 consumption of runs / expiration
 sales with exclusivity
Search & analysis on rights portfolio
Criteria
get all the people involved
accept idea of revising work-flows
simplify user interfaces as much as possible
 same interface might be integrated with multiple systems
give priority to input of new contracts

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Rights Automation
Complete rights sheets, add
link to content
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rights clearance made
directly by the users
RaiChannelsRai Com Rai Web Rai Pubblicità
disclairmers &
constraints
rights sheet in
MPEG-21 MCO
Time line 
Video Video clip 1 Video clip 2 Video Clip 3
Documentazione
metadata
Content 1 “Napoli prima e dopo i 4 giornate” di Aldo Zappalà Repertorio Ist. Luce
Diritti
metadata
Right 1 c.n. 1051801560; free tv, pacch italia, scad. 29.04.2012 AQ. Free tv, scad
31/12/2011
Content B
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analysis
Links to administrative systems…
Benefits of adopting MPEG-21 MCO
it supports the expression of contract condition in our scope.
Flexible, as it is possible to select the desired degree of generality /
specificity; the various dimensions of the conditions can be combined in
all needed ways, for expressing the “reference exploitation rights”
approved by the legal department.
Easy to extend and to integrate rights information with other domains.
Not just an organisational model, but a standard that can be widely used.
The Media Contract Ontology (MCO) is a standard
of MPEG-21 multimedia framework. An electronic
format for machine readable contracts on media
rights. The 1st edition was issued in 2013, the 2nd
edition is under ballot, exp. 2016.

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Metadata Automation
Service-based integration of Automated Information Extraction tools
Genre categorisation
Machine translation
Spoken language identification
Automated sport content analysis
Quality analysis
Visual clustering and visual search
http://tosca-mp.eu Material
selection
Features
generation
Test patterns
Features
selection
Learning/
Trimming
phase
Test
phase
Operational
phase
Training patterns

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From media to semantics
Current metadata practises are mostly media-centric
You inspect or analyse the media
You document the media
You search for the media through metadata
Future approach: metadata (h)as value!
Exploiting semantics
Entities, relations, inferences
Media as one particular instance or realisation
Feed for new ways of making media business

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Supporting technologies – Visual Search
Query
(e.g., from a camera, existing programme)
Visual search
Result
(e.g. from broadcast archive)
Visual Search
http://ict-bridget.eu

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Storage
Archives in 2020 will face several challenges
Increase of content quality
Resolution, frame rate, dynamic range
Increase of distribution and publication channels
Digital TV
Internet
– Web is worth being archived
Mobile
– Apps are worth being archived
Digitization of archives
Millions of hours
Where to put resulting stuff?

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Storage - AMS
Advanced Cloud Storage for Media
First efforts in VISION Cloud, FP7, 2010-2014
Key ideas
Computation near media
Content-based access rather than location-based
Rich metadata management at the storage level
Further development in collaboration with IBM in 2015
RAI MediaBridge
Archive application: metadata enrichment, digital preservation
processes, quality checks
Media Bridge Middleware
Media Project Management Interface
Projects Contents
Essence Rich
Metadata
Relations
Compu
-
tational
Tasks
Identity
Management
Interface
User
Account
Access
Policies

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Conclusions
Digitise assets is only the first step
You have content safe
Make contract and rights managment efficient
You can use it
Exploitation of (meta)data & semantics
You can make new business
Storage (& computation) is a challenge
You can sustain the business

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Contacts
Alberto MESSINA
RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana
Centre for Research and Technological Innovation
alberto.messina@rai.it
Laurent BOCH
RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana
Centre for Research and Technological Innovation
laurent.boch@rai.it
Roberto ROSSETTO
RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana
Teche
roberto.rossetto@rai.it

40. Task Force SRG for the archives 2020

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SRG Archives strategy
 Archiving of all the own production in its original quality
 Standardisation, harmonisation and centralisation of the archive services
 Automation
 Opening and enhancement

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Task Force for a realisation concept (roadmap)
5 main studies:
1. Archiving (9 month)
2. Searching interface (3 month)
3. Traceability (2 month)
4. Governance (4 month)
5. Finance (4 month)

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Task Force for a realisation concept: archiving
Three steps:
1. What will be the SRG production in 2020 => Stakeholder program
departments, Benchmark
2. What will be the technical and structural evolution => Stakeholder operation
department, international Benchmark, Industry
3. What will be the archiving policy => Stakeholder Archives, Management

44. Conclusion

45. Storage
New quantities
and densities
Formats
For convergent use
Rights
management
Traceability
Metadata
automation
User
interface
Searching tool
Workflows
Includion right
formats and
metadata
Storage
medium and
migration
Architectur
one system or
services?
Rights
management
Financing
Business model
Ownership
Broadcaster or
government
Enhancement
The new archivist

47. for Voting:
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48. Just for speakers
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Form Voting:
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